Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Friday, February 26th, 2010
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The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
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The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (小川洋子)
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
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Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
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I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
Friday, February 5th, 2010
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Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
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Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
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Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Monday, December 28th, 2009
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Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville
Friday, December 25th, 2009
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The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Monday, November 30th, 2009
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The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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Money by Martin Amis
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
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Risk by Colin Harrison
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
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I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki (夏目漱石)
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
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Tales of Belkin by Alexander Pushkin
Friday, September 11th, 2009
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The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi (奥泉光)
Monday, August 10th, 2009
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Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎)
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
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Exiles in the Garden by Ward Just
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
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The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd
Saturday, July 18th, 2009
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Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki (夏目漱石)
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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Lunar Follies by Gilbert Sorrentino
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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Oh! by Todd Shimoda
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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Lowboy by John Wray
Friday, June 26th, 2009
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Train by Pete Dexter
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
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Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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The Pets by Bragi Ólafsson
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
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In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami (村上龍)
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
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The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray
Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Jade Lady Burning by Martin Limón
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
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As a Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo
Monday, March 30th, 2009
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In the Pond by Ha Jin (哈金)
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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A Cat, a Man, and Two Women by Junichiro Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎)
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
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The Case for Big Government by Jeff Madrick
Friday, March 13th, 2009
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
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The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
Friday, February 20th, 2009
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All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき)
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy by Eric G. Wilson
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
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The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
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Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
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Dictation by Cynthia Ozick
Saturday, December 20th, 2008
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Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
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n+1 #7
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
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In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
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Unpacking the Boxes by Donald Hall
Friday, November 28th, 2008
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The Squabble by Nikolai Gogol
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
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Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Friday, November 14th, 2008
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Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
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After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
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Boredom by Alberto Moravia
Monday, October 13th, 2008
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Friday, October 10th, 2008
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Tin House #37
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
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Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
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Mr. Foreigner by Matthew Kneale
Sunday, September 7th, 2008
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Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
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Breath by Tim Winton
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
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We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
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A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Monday, July 21st, 2008
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Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
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Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
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The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
Friday, May 9th, 2008
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Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
Monday, April 14th, 2008
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Lost Men by Brian Leung
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
Monday, March 31st, 2008
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Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
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Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob by Lee Siegel
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
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Birchwood by John Banville
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
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The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
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The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
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The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
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Tin House #32
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Friday, October 26th, 2007
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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
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Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
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Night Train by Martin Amis
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
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The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima
Friday, August 24th, 2007
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The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
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The Safety of Objects by A. M. Homes
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
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The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen
Monday, June 18th, 2007
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After Dark by Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
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The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
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Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
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This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
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Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
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Carpenter’s Gothic by William Gaddis
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
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White Ghost Girls
Monday, February 12th, 2007
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Monkey King
Monday, January 8th, 2007
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Cloud Atlas
Monday, January 1st, 2007
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Heredity
Friday, November 17th, 2006
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Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
Friday, October 20th, 2006
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The Noodle Maker
Monday, October 9th, 2006
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Breaking the Spell
Friday, August 11th, 2006
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The Sea
Saturday, July 15th, 2006
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Never Let Me Go
Sunday, May 28th, 2006
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In Dubious Battle
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
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The Extra Man (RR)
Rashomon Gate (NR)
The Assault (R)
The Housekeeper and the Professor (RR)
Samedi the Deafness (RR)
I.O.U. (RR)
The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (R)
Senselessness (RR)
The Debt to Pleasure (HR)
Sag Harbor (RR)
The Way Through Doors (RR)
Buddha’s Money (NR)
Avoidance (RR)
Mandarins (R)
First Snow on Fuji (R)