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      On this page you will find the most recent review-overviews we offer -- books that we haven't reviewed yet, but where we've collected links to other reviews and additional information, as well as selected review-quotes.

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• Check out the reviews most recently added to the complete review
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• And, since the complete review is especially strong on backlist and older books, don't forget to check our Review Index to see all the books under review

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      Most recent review-overviews at the complete review:

• Carlos Gamerro's The Islands
  
  
• Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being
  
  
• Tommy Wieringa's Caesarion -- now published in the US as (sigh) Little Caesar
  
  
• Szathmári Sándor's semi-modern variation on Gulliver's Travels, Voyage to Kazohinia
  
  
• Andrés Neuman's much-hailed and prize-winning Traveler of the Century
  
  
• Umberto Eco's new novel, The Prague Cemetery
  
  
• Delphine de Vigan's Underground Time
  
  
• Juan Gabriel Vásquez's The Secret History of Costaguana
  
  
• Aravind Adiga's Last Man in Tower
  
  
• Helon Habila's three novels:
  • His recent Oil on Water
  • Measuring Time
  • Waiting for an Angel
  
  
• Javier Cercas considering Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination, in The Anatomy of a Moment
  
  
• Julian Barnes' story collection, Pulse
  
  
• Arno Schmidt's truly magnum opus, Zettel's Traum
  
  
• Murakami Haruki's1Q84
  
  
• Jonathan Franzen's already critically acclaimed blockbuster, Freedom
  
  
• Paul Berman's The Flight of the Intellectuals
  
  
• Joshua Cohen's massive Witz
  
  
• Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt's The Life of Irène Némirovsky
  
  
• Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini's new book, in which they think they show What Darwin Got Wrong (the critics disagree)
  
  
• David Mitchell's new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
  
  
• Peter Carey's new novel, Parrot and Olivier in America
  
  
• Two works by Yann Martel:
  • His new novel, Beatrice and Virgil
  • His Man Booker-winning bestseller, Life of Pi
  
  
• Don DeLillo's new novel, Point Omega
  
  

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