Review Books

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

Nonfiction

The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric R. Kandel
This Will Have Been: Art, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival by Christopher E. G. Benfey
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places by Bernard L. Krause
Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets by Wendy Lesser
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House by Carolyn Morrow Long
Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art by Joshua Knelman
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro
In the Memory of the Map: A Cartographic Memoir (Sightline Books) by Christopher Norment
Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult by Luciano Chessa
Escape of Sigmund Freud by David Cohen
Blood and Bone: Truth and Reconciliation in a Southern Town by Jack Shuler
The Body by Nicholas J. Fox
Memory of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth Commission Report by Daniel Rothenberg
Studs Terkel's Chicago by Studs Terkel
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch
Varieties of Presence by Alva No�
The Rise of Nuclear Fear by Spencer R. Weart

Poetry

What Is Amazing (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Heather Christle
Taller When Prone: Poems by Les A. Murray
Glass Is Elastic by Jon Glover
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys: Poems by D. A. Powell
4:56: Poems by Carlos Fuentes Lemus
In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys: Poems by Campbell McGrath
Watchword (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Pura Lopez Colome
Stray by Amanda Dalton
When All My Disappointments Came at Once by Todd Swift
Omens in the Year of the Ox by Steven Price
Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert
The Girls of Peculiar: Poetry by Catherine Pierce
Song of the Departed: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl by Georg Trakl
The Juno Charm by Nuala Ni Chonchuir
Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, a Bilingual Edition by Amelia Rosselli
Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam by Christian Wiman and Osip Mandelstam

Fiction

History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles Baxter
Girlchild: A Novel by Tupelo Hassman
Waterline: A Novel (P.S.) by Ross Raisin
The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories (Seagull Books - The Africa List) by Ivan Vladislavic
Dogma by Lars Iyer
The City Beneath the Snow: Stories (The Alaska Literary Series) by Marjorie Kowalski Cole
The New Republic: A Novel by Lionel Shriver
Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door: Stories by Etgar Keret
The Tunnel (Penguin Classics) by Ernesto Sabato
Wonderful Investigations: Essays, Meditations, Tales by Dan Beachy-Quick
Amsterdam Stories by Nescio
The Coward's Tale: A Novel by Vanessa Gebbie
Mathematics: by Jacques Roubaud
Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Death Sentences by Kawamata Chiaki
Light without Heat: Stories by Matthew Kirkpatrick
Autoportrait by Edouard Lev�
The Buenos Aires Quintet (A Pepe Carvalho Mystery) by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
The Eternal Philistine (Neversink) by �d�n von Horv�th
True by Riikka Pulkkinen
The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara
The Book of Khalid (Neversink) by Ameen Rihani
Joseph Walser's Machine (Portuguese Literature Series) by Gon�alo M. Tavares
Traveler of the Century: A Novel by Andr�s Neuman
Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman
The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka

Nonfiction

Women of the Underground: Art: Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves by Zora von Burden
Art Is Not What You Think It Is (Blackwell Manifestos) by Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago
I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation by Francis Picabia
Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman (Hollywood Legends) by Dan Callahan
Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts by Stacy A. Cordery
Stealing History by Gerald Stern
Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation by Rebecca J. Scott
Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra
German History in Modern Times: Four Lives of the Nation by William W. Hagen
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World (P.S.) by Edward Dolnick
How Not to Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back by Gilbert Waldbauer
The Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories by Keith Oatley
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction by Elissa Marder
Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times by Eyal Press
An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton by Dawn Skorczewski
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
The Femicide Machine (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series) by Sergio Gonz�lez Rodr�guez

Poetry

Canti: Poems / A Bilingual Edition by Giacomo Leopardi
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan by George Steiner
Pitch: Poems by Todd Boss
Stealing History by Gerald Stern
Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser
4:56: Poems by Carlos Fuentes Lemus
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys: Poems by D. A. Powell
In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys: Poems by Campbell McGrath
Stray by Amanda Dalton
Song of the Departed: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl by Georg Trakl

Fiction

Sister Stop Breathing, by Chiara Barzini
American Dervish: A Novel by Ayad Akhtar
First You Try Everything: A Novel by Jane McCafferty
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown
All That I Am: A Novel by Anna Funder
The Snow Child: A Novel by Eowyn Ivey
The Mirage: A Novel by Matt Ruff
A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
Sweet Talk by Stephanie Vaughn
The Bug: A Novel by Ellen Ullman
Varamo by C�sar Aira
History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason
Watergate: A Novel by Thomas Mallon
By Blood: A Novel by Ellen Ullman
Murder in the Central Committee (A Pepe Carvalho Mystery) by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
God's Horse and The Atheists' School by Wilhelm Dichter
In-Flight Entertainment: Stories by Helen Simpson
Assisted Living (Swedish Literature Series) by Nikanor Teratologen
The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars by Maurice DeKobra
My Father's Book (Seagull Books - The Swiss List) by Urs Widmer
Drifting House by Krys Lee
Threats: A Novel by Amelia Gray
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
Girl Reading: A Novel by Katie Ward
The Roving Shadows (SB-The French List) by Pascal Quignard
Hitchers by Will McIntosh
These Days Are Ours by Michelle Haimoff
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel R. Delany
Self-Portrait of an Other by Cees Nooteboom
Men in Space (Vintage) by Tom McCarthy
Girlchild: A Novel by Tupelo Hassman
Satantango by L�szl� Krasznahorkai
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn
Berlin Stories (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Walser
Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot
Broadway Baby by Alan Shapiro
These Dreams of You by Steve Erickson
The Angst-ridden Executive (A Pepe Carvalho Mystery) by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
The Man Who Wanted to Buy a Heart: A Collection of Short Stories by Leonard S Bernstein
Monstress: Stories by Lysley Tenorio

Nonfiction

Rub Out the Words by William Burroughs
Sacred Monsters by Edmund White
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters by Joseph Roth
Travels in China by Roland Barthes
Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait by Eli Friedlander
The Conspiracy by Paul Nizan
Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer" (Icons of America) by Frederick W. Turner
Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011 by Martha C. Nussbaum
The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction by Elissa Marder
The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life by Floyd Skloot
Weston and Charlot: Art and Friendship by Lew Andrews
The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation by Steven E. Ozment
This Strange Idea of the Beautiful (SB-The French List) by FranCois Jullien
The Book of Drugs: A Memoir by Mike Doughty
The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer
Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" by Margaret Powell
Conversations with Kafka (Second Edition) by Gustav Janouch
The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age by Richard Seaver
The Castrato and His Wife by Helen Berry
The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott Heron
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard
The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA by Jeff Wheelwright
Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations by Norman Davies
Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson R. Cowie
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois
The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration by Alec Wilkinson

Poetry

Slot by Jill Magi
Walking after Midnight by Bill Kushner
A Map of the Lost World (Pitt Poetry Series) by Rick Hilles
Night of the Republic by Alan Shapiro
Almost Invisible: Poems by Mark Strand
Chinoiserie by Karen Rigby
Last Poems by Hayden Carruth
Notturno (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Gabriele D'Annunzio
Catastrophes by Breyten Breytenbach
Lacemakers by Claire McQuerry
See You in the Dark: Poems by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The Smoke of Distant Fires by Eduardo Chirinos Arrieta
If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems by Vera Pavlova
Everyday People: Poems by Albert Goldbarth
Good Grief by Stevie Edwards
Baltics by Tomas Transtromer
Poems by Cyprian Norwid
I Want to Make You Safe by Amy King
With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman

Fiction

The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney
The Fat Years: A Novel by Koonchung Chan
At Last: A Novel (Patrick Melrose) by Edward St Aubyn
Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel by Shalom Auslander
The Translation of the Bones: A Novel by Francesca Kay
Pro Bono by Seicho Matsumoto
Budapest Noir: A Novel by Vilmos Kondor
Mr g: A Novel About the Creation by Alan Lightman
Taft 2012: A Novel by Jason Heller
Dance the Eagle to Sleep: A Novel by Marge Piercy
Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
An Ermine in Czernopol (New York Review Books Classics) by Gregor von Rezzori
Me and You by Niccolo Ammaniti
The Break by Pietro Grossi
Sailing Against the Wind: A Novel (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Jaan Kross
The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein
Mathematique by Jacques Roubaud
Leela's Book: A Novel by Alice Albinia
Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice) by Alexis M. Smith
The Book of Emotions (Brazilian Literature Series) by Jo�o Almino
Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta (Swiss Literature Series) by Aglaja Veteranyi
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (Myths) by A.S. Byatt
The Islanders by Christopher Priest

Nonfiction

Art Forgery: The History of a Modern Obsession by Thierry Lenain
Radio: Essays in Bad Reception by John Mowitt
New York in the 70s by Alan Tannenbaum
What's to Become of the Boy?: Or, Something to Do with Books by Heinrich Boll
American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute by Jeffrey Abt
Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague by Keith Wrightson
Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor by Rosina Harrison
The Green Sofa (Life Writing) by Natascha W�rzbach
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila
Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship by Andrew Wilson
The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City---Lust, Vice, and Desire Across the Ages by Catharine Arnold
Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey by Hugh Pope and Nicole Pope
The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau
What It Means to Be Human: Historical Reflections from the 1800s to the Present by Joanna Bourke
Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters by Katie-Louise Thomas
The Holocaust as Culture: A Conversation with Imre Kertesz
by Peter Nowak
A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry
lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts:essays by Ntozake Shange
Wood by Joachim Radkau
The Curious History of Love by Jean-Claude Kaufmann
Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation by Jerry L. Walls
Slave to Happiness: Why Having an Interesting Life Is the New American Dream by Penelope Trunk
Time Travel and Warp Drives: A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space by Allen Everett and Thomas Roman
In the Field, Among the Feathered: A History of Birders and Their Guides by Thomas R. Dunlap
A Short History of Scientific Thought by John Henry
The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration by Douglas A. Cunningham
Engineers of the Soul: In the Footsteps of Stalin's Writers by Frank Westerman

Fiction

An Open Secret by Carlos Gamerro
420 Characters by Lou Beach
The Letter Killers Club (New York Review Books Classics) by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll by Heinrich Boll
Invitation to a Voyage (Netherlandic and Belgian Literature Series) by Fran�ois Emmanuel
Minuet for Guitar (Slovenian Literature Series) by Vitomil Zupan
Assisted Living (Swedish Literature Series) by Nikanor Teratologen
Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto by Gianni Rodari
The Galley Slave (Slovenian Literature Series) by Drago Janar
Mister Blue by Jacques Poulin
Volcano by Shusaku Endo
When I Whistle by Shusaku Endo
The Tunnel (Penguin Classics) by Ernesto Sabato
A Thinking Man's Bully by Michael Adelberg
No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman
From Under the Bed by Fiona McClean
Was: a novel by Geoff Ryman
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran by Shahrnush Parsipur
Walking on Dry Land by Denis Kehoe
The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol
Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life by Ann Beattie
Deliriously Happy: and Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle
Queen of America: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Peter Ackroyd
The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
The Adventures of Sindbad (New York Review Books Classics) by Gyula Krudy
The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mathias Malzieu
Hymn to Old Age by Hermann Hesse
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan by George Steiner
The Roving Shadows (SB-The French List) by Pascal Quignard
Best European Fiction 2012 (Best European Fiction) by Aleksandar Hemon
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel by Nelson George
Love and Shame and Love: A Novel by Peter Orner
After the Apocalypse: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh
The Break by Pietro Grossi

Poetry

The Best of Toadlily Press: New and Selected Poems, edited by Myrna Goodman and Meredith Trede
Prurient Anarchic Omnibus by j/j hastain
Pier by Janine Oshiro
Vasko Popa: Complete Poems by Vasko Popa
Nod House by Nathaniel MacKey
Coeur de Lion by Ariana Reines
Collected Body by Valzhyna Mort
God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike: New & Later Collected Poems by Stanley Moss
O Bon by Brandon Shimoda
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Alice Notley
Jam Tree Gully: Poems by John Kinsella
Kintsugi by Thomas Meyer
I Want to Make You Safe by Amy King
They Came to See a Poet by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Grace Shiver by Catherine Stonehouse
All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon
Selected and Last Poems: 1931-2004 by Czeslaw Milosz
Another Instance: Three Chapbooks by Jack Collom, Camille Guthrie and Mark McMorris
Chrysanthemums, Rowers by Hans Faverey
Onion Man by Kathryn Mockler
Slot by Jill Magi
Afterimage by Damon Krukowski

Nonfiction

Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf by Gabrielle McIntire
The Sons of Clovis: (Literary Hoaxes) by David Brooks
Memory's Wake by Derek Owens
Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers-An American Tale of Sex and Wonder by Mike Edison
The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood by Barbara Almond
What's to Become of the Boy?: Or, Something to Do with Books by Heinrich Boll
The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life by Floyd Skloot
Deadly Powers: Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination by Paul A. Trout
Missing: Persons and Politics by Jenny Edkins
Views from the Dark Side of American History by Michael Fellman
The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making by Susan Stewart
Winckelmann and the Vatican's First Profane Museum by Louis A. Ruprecht
Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry by Geoffrey Jones
Cotton Bales, Goatmen & Witches: Legends from the Heart of Texas by Bradley T. Turner and Mark Burdine
Ten Popes Who Shook the World by Eamon Duffy
Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion by Jean H. Baker
Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston by Ross Feld and Richard Howard
Body of a Dancer by Renee D'Aoust
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes
Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse by Lawrence Scott Sheets
Bad Blood: A Memoir (P.S.) by Lorna Sage
Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit by Joseph Epstein

Fiction

To Smithereens by Rosalyn Drexler
Historama by Diza Sauers
Ida by Gertrude Stein
Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein
The Odditorium by Melissa Pritchard
The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays by Yasmine Beverly Rana
Picket Line by Breena Wiederhoeft
Tornado Alley by Craig Nova
The Book of Dreams by Craig Nova
Insouciance by Thomas Phillips
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel R. Delany
Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks
This Side Jordan: A Novel by Margaret Laurence
Other Selves by CD Minni
Other Heartbreaks: Stories by Patricia Henley
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
The Verificationist: A Novel by Donald Antrim
In Red by Magdalena Tulli
Isle of the Dead (Swiss Literature Series) by Gerhard Meier
The Dreaming Girl by Roberta Allen
Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes (Vintage) by Daniel Kehlmann
Inherited by Amanda Curtin