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      What's new at the complete review ? Find out here. Below you'll find the reviews most recently added to the complete review. You can also:

• See our most recent review-overviews -- all the links and review-summaries, but of titles not yet reviewed by us
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      Most recent additions to the complete review:

• Amélie Nothomb's most recent novel, Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam
  
  
• Gordon Burn presents The News as a Novel in Born Yesterday
  
  
• José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons, finally also coming to the US
  
  
• Two novels by Jeanette Winterson:
  • The Stone Gods
  • Tanglewreck
  
  
• Alberto Manguel's With Borges
  
  
• Sibusiso Nyembezi's 1961 Zulu novel, The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg, finally available in English
  
  
• Our review-overview of Franco Moretti's Abstract Models for a Literary History, Graphs, Maps, Trees
  
  
• Tove Jansson's Fair Play
  
  
• Aravind Adiga's questionable novel about the new India, The White Tiger
  
  
• Muriel Barbery's bestselling (in France) novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  
  
• Takagi Nobuko's Translucent Tree, just out in English
  
  
• A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu -- by Peter McMillan --, One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each
  
  
• Jonathan Weiss' study of Irène Némirovsky: Her Life and Works
  
  
• And Other Stories by Georgi Gospodinov
  
  
• Our review-overview of Keith Gessen's All the Sad Young Literary Men
  
  
• Martin Amis' collected writings on September 11, 2001-2007, The Second Plane
  
  
• Thierry Jonquet's creepy Mygale (more recently published in the UK as Tarantula)
  
  
• S.Y.Agnon's To this Day, finally available in English
  
  
• Two novels by Jean-Claude Izzo:
  • The final volume of his Marseilles-trilogy, Solea
  • Our review-overview of his The Lost Sailors
  
  
• Nobel laureate Kertész Imre's The Pathseeker, now available in English
  
  
• Alberto Manguel on The Library at Night
  
  
• Angolan author Ondjaki's Good Morning Comrades
  
  
• Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, and Gregory Blue on the notorious Chinese method of execution, Death by a Thousand Cuts
  
  
• Mir Amman's 1803 Urdu classic, A Tale of Four Dervishes
  
  
• Our review-overview of Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence -- to which we imagine we'll be adding new review links and quotes on an almost daily basis for the foreseeable future
  
  
• A Picture Dictionary for the Over Fives by Hungarian author Zilahy Péter, The Last Window-Giraffe
  
  
• Two novels by Swiss author Peter Stamm:
  • Agnes
  • The forthcoming On a Day Like This
  
  

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