The Horned Man by James Lasdun
Friday, December 26th, 2008
Recommended.
Dictation by Cynthia Ozick
Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Not recommended.
Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Not recommended.
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
The Face of Another by Kobo Abe
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Recommended.
n+1 #7
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Unpacking the Boxes by Donald Hall
Friday, November 28th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
The Funeral Party by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Recommended.
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Not recommended.
The Squabble by Nikolai Gogol
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Friday, November 14th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
The Pathseeker by Imre Kertész
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Recommended.
World Famous Love Acts by Brian Leung
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Recommended.
A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Not recommended.
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Boredom by Alberto Moravia
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Eclipse by John Banville
Monday, October 6th, 2008
Recommended.
Tin House #37
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Not recommended.
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Recommended.
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Not recommended.
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Trauma by Patrick McGrath
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Not recommended.
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Recommended.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living by Michael Dahlie
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Not recommended.
Mr. Foreigner by Matthew Kneale
Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Recommended.
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
The Foreign Student by Susan Choi
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Recommended.
It’s All Right Now by Charles Chadwick
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Not recommended.
Breath by Tim Winton
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Recommended.
Tin House #36
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Recommended.
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Not recommended.
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Time Regained by Marcel Proust
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Recommended.
Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Not recommended.
After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Not recommended.
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Recommended.
Contempt by Alberto Moravia
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Highly recommended.
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Envy by Yuri Olesha
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Recommended.
The Boat by Nam Le
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Recommended.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Not recommended.
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Recommended.
The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
The Captive and The Fugitive by Marcel Proust
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Recommended.
The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Not recommended.
Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Not recommended.
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Recommended.
Tin House #35
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Not recommended.
Lost Men by Brian Leung
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Recommended.
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki (夏目漱石)
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Highly recommended.
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Recommended.
Experience by Martin Amis
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Recommended.
Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob by Lee Siegel
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
n+1 #6
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Recommended.
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Birchwood by John Banville
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
The Actual by Saul Bellow
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Recommended.
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Things We Lose by Roland Sodowsky
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Highly recommended.
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Recommended.
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Recommended.
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Recommended.
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Recommended with reservations.
The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Not recommended.
The Information by Martin Amis
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Recommended.
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