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February 27, 2012
Fiction
Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel by William Boyd
HHhH: A Novel by Laurent Binet
Narcopolis: A Novel by Jeet Thayil
Easy Money: A Novel by Jens Lapidus
The Hunger Angel: A Novel by Herta Müller
Unterzakhn by Leela Corman
Dead Man Upright (Factory 5) by Derek Raymond
Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Sheckley
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Maria Perillo
The Columnist: A Play by David Auburn
The Book of Madness and Cures: A Novel by Regina O'Melveny
An Unexpected Guest: A Novel by Anne Korkeakivi
Autobiography of Childhood by Sina Queyras
The Fountain of Age: Stories by Nancy Kress
Immobility by Brian Evenson
Absolution by Patrick Flanery
Edge by Koji Suzuki
Traveler of the Century: A Novel by Andrés Neuman
Ghosting by Kirby Gann
The Pretty Girl: Novella and Stories by Debra Spark
Pro Bono by Seicho Matsumoto
Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
Reticence by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Kaltenburg by Marcel Beyer
The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars by Maurice DeKobra
My Only Wife by Jac Jemc
Deadfall Hotel by Steve Rasnic Tem
ENMA the Immortal by Fumi Nakamura
As Though She Were Sleeping by Elias Khoury
Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale by Mario Levi
Black Sunlight by Dambudzo Marechera
City of Refuge by Kenz? Kitakata
Crusoe's Daughter by Jane Gardam
You Are Not Like Other Mothers by Angelika Schrobsdorff
Neighbours: The Story of A Murder by Lilia Momplé
Wichita by Thad Ziolkowski
Children in Reindeer Woods by Kristin Omarsdottir
Before the End, After the Beginning by Dagoberto Gilb
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 01:49 PM
February 23, 2012
Nonfiction
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman by Alice Kessler-Harris
The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made: A Family Memoir by Flora Miller Biddle
Divas in the Convent: Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy by Craig A. Monson
Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed: Psychoanalytic Writings by Elisabeth Bronfen, Louise Bourgeois
Jung on Art: The Autonomy of the Creative Drive by Tjeu Van den Berk
Women of the Underground: Art: Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves by Zora von Burden
Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty by Modris Eksteins
Goodbye Sarajevo by Akta Reid and Hana Schofield
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir by Agatha Christie
The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints by Jacobus de Voragine
Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill and Edward Field
The Messenger by Yannick Haenel
Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin
Oblivion: A Memoir by Héctor Abad
Niagara Digressions by E. R. Baxter III and Eric Gansworth
The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 (Central European Studies) by Julie M. Johnson
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood by Anne Enright
The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Yaeger Kaplan
The Elizabethans by A. N. Wilson
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric Berkowitz
Detroit: A Biography by Scott Martelle
Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets by Brian Boyd
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago by Gary Krist
The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal by Ruth MacKay
The Long Revolution by Raymond Williams
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
On the Run in Siberia by Rane Willerslev
Eaten by a Giant Clam: Great Adventures in Natural Science by Joseph Cummins
Hungary: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism (Columbia/Hurst) by Paul Lendvai
Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature by Daniel Levin Becker
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey
The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women by Elisabeth Badinter
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams by Mark Dery
The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality by Chris Mooney
Networks Without a Cause: A Critique of Social Media by Geert Lovink
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired by Till Roenneberg
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 01:30 PM
February 17, 2012
Nonfiction
Ravel the Decadent: Memory, Sublimation, and Desire by Michael J. Puri
The Book of Mormon by Paul Gutjahr
Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist (Jewish Women Writers) by Heléne Aylon
Blaming Islam (Boston Review Books) by John Richard Bowen
Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South by Brooks Blevins
A Saving Remnant by Martin B. Duberman
The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal
Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) by Arie Dubnov
The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise by Garret Keizer
This is not a Diary by Zygmunt Bauman
Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia by Stephen L. Fisher
Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages by Elizabeth Little
Latin America's Cold War by Hal Brands
CIFERAE: A Bestiary in Five Fingers (Posthumanities) by Tom Tyler
A People's History of Baseball by Mitchell Nathanson
The Metamorphoses of Kinship by Maurice Godelier
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 01:03 PM
February 16, 2012
Fiction
The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You: Stories by Jon McGregor
The Buenos Aires Quintet (A Pepe Carvalho Mystery) by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Death Sentences by Kawamata Chiaki
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
Twelfth and Race (Flyover Fiction) by Eric Goodman
What They Do in the Dark: A Novel by Amanda Coe
Notturno (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Gabriele D'Annunzio
In the Shade of the Shady Tree: Stories of Wheatbelt Australia by John Kinsella
Hatred and Forgiveness (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Julia Kristeva
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 07:05 PM