Review Books

Nonfiction

The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations by Anthony Heilbut
Chekhov on Theatre by Jutta Hercher
This Strange Idea of the Beautiful (SB-The French List) by FranCois Jullien
The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? by Kathleen Marie Higgins
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone
My Poets by Maureen N. McLane
Tribute to Freud (Second Edition) (New Directions Paperbook) by Hilda Doolittle
James Joyce: A New Biography by Gordon Bowker
Diary (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Witold Gombrowicz
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion by Andrew Robinson
Hidden: Reflections on Gay Life, AIDS, and Spiritual Desire by Richard Giannone
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer by David Roberts
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay by Frank Partnoy
Why Love Hurts by Eva Illouz
Selling Sex in the Reich: Prostitutes in German Society, 1914-1945 by Victoria Harris
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa by Steve Kemper
Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War by R. M. Douglas
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore
The Woman Reader by Belinda Elizabeth Jack
A People's History of London by Lindsey German
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel
Sin: The Early History of an Idea by Paula Fredriksen
Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature by David P. Barash
City: A User's Guide to the Past, Present, and Future of Urban Life by P. D. Smith
Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures by Claudia L. Johnson
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency by Parmy Olson
The Great Accelerator by Paul Virilio
Life After Murder: Five Men in Search of Redemption by Nancy Mullane
Loaded Words by Marjorie B. Garber
Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series) by Tiqqun

Fiction

Capital: A Novel by John Lanchester
Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn
How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life by Sheila Heti
The Expendable Man (New York Review Books Classics) by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Devil Delivered and Other Tales by Steven Erikson
The Passion According to G.H. (New Directions Paperbook) by Clarice Lispector
Near to the Wild Heart (New Directions Paperbook) by Clarice Lispector
A Breath of Life (New Directions Paperbook) by Clarice Lispector
�gua Viva (New Directions Paperbook) by Clarice Lispector
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook) by Delmore Schwartz
The Book of Khalid (Neversink) by Ameen Rihani
Brenner and God by Wolf Haas
Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones
Dublinesque (New Directions Paperbook) by Enrique Vila-Matas
Inside by Alix Ohlin
Ride a Cockhorse (New York Review Books Classics) by Raymond Kennedy
Infinity: The Story of a Moment by Gabriel Josipovici
The Walk (New Directions Paperbook) by Robert Walser
Planets by Sergio Chejfec
The Laurels of Lake Constance by Marie Chaix
How (Ohio State Univ Prize in Short Fiction) by Geoff Wyss
Blind Man's Bluff by Aidan Higgins
All Men Are Liars by Alberto Manguel
The Abolition of Species (SB-The German List) by Dietmar Dath
Youth Without God (Neversink) by Odon Von Horvath
Tzili: The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld
House of Shadows (SB-The French List) by Diane Meur
Kite (SB-The French List) by Dominique Edde
The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Neversink) by Rudolf Erich Raspe
Cubop City Blues by Pablo Medina
What Is All This? by Stephen Dixon

Poetry

The Swerve by Julith Jedamus
The Colonies (New Polish Writing) by Tomasz Rozycki
Pelt by Sarah Jackson
Long Division: Poems by Alan Michael Parker
Unseen Hand: Poems by Adam Zagajewski
Mother Desert: Poems by Jo Sarzotti
Toward Babel: Poems and A Memoir by Ilana Shmueli
Anatomical Theater (In the Grip of Strange Thoughts) by Andrei Sen-Senkov
Avenue by Michael O'Brien
Divide and Rule by Walid Bitar
Antigonick by Anne Carson
Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have My Being by Paul Durcan
Conquest by Zo� Brigley
On the Tracks of Wild Game by Tomaz Salamun
Deformation Zone by Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Goransson
Transfer Fat by Aase Berg
Snowflake/Different Streets by Eileen Myles
Into the Snow by Gennady Aygi
Madness, Rack and Honey by Mary Ruefle

Nonfiction

Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography and Graphic Design Influence Behavior by Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic
Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America by Erika Lee Doss
Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist (Jewish Women Writers) by Hel�ne Aylon
The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story (Icons of America) by Edward Berenson
Kiki de Montparnasse (Graphic Biography) by Catel Muller
December (SB-The German List) by Alexander Kluge, Gerhard Richter
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation by Barbara Arrowsmith Young
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States by Geoffrey C. Ward
Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot
Leila Khaled: Fighting for Palestine (Revolutionary Lives) by Sarah Irving
Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness by George Yancy
Death (The Open Yale Courses Series) by Shelly Kagan
Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Land of Strangers by Ash Amin

Fiction

Pure by Andrew Miller
The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore
The Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
The Testament of Jessie Lamb: A Novel (P.S.) by Jane Rogers
My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausg�rd
Calling Invisible Women: A Novel by Jeanne Ray
Wanted: Elevator Man by Joseph G. Peterson
The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler
The War with the Newts (Neversink) by Karel Capek
The Cranes Dance (Vintage Contemporaries Original) by Meg Howrey
Kapow! by Adam Thirlwell
The Listeners by Leni Zumas
Dona Barbara: A Novel by R�mulo Gallegos

Fiction

Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel (Wolf Hall Trilogy) by Hilary Mantel
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
Roadside Picnic (Rediscovered Classics) by Arkadi? Natanovich Strugat?s?ki?
A Naked Singularity: A Novel by Sergio de la Pava
Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Sheckley
I Am Forbidden: A Novel by Anouk Markovits
The Expendable Man (New York Review Books Classics) by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Fountain of Age: Stories by Nancy Kress
The Complete Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau
My First Suicide by Jerzy Pilch
�gua Viva (New Directions Paperbook) by Clarice Lispector
A Breath of Life (New Directions Paperbook) by Clarice Lispector
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales by The Brothers Grimm
Tender Shoots by Paul Morand
The Passion According to G.H. (New Directions Paperbook) by Clarice Lispector
Near to the Wild Heart (New Directions Paperbook) by Clarice Lispector
The Listeners by Leni Zumas
The Book of Khalid (Neversink) by Ameen Fares Rihani
The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories by Lucia Maria Perillo
Walaschek's Dream by Giovanni Orelli
Maintenance by Tigre Benvie
Confusion (New York Review Books Classics) by Stefan Zweig
Was: a novel by Geoff Ryman
The Legend of Pradeep Mathew: A Novel by Shehan Karunatilaka
Maleficium by Martine Desjardins

Nonfiction

Mathematics, A Beautiful Elsewhere by Herv� Chand�s and Michel Cass�
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston
Mail Order Geniuses by Rick Marschall
Pataphysical Essays by Ren� Daumal and Thomas Vosteen
Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk and Money by Diccon Bewes
Nijinsky: A Life of Genius and Madness by Richard Buckle
Promiscuous: "Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness by Bernard Avishai
The Sun King (New York Review Books Classics) by Nancy Mitford
Memoirs of a Revolutionary (New York Review Books Classics) by Victor Serge
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today by Kate Bornstein
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry
Exit Interview by David Westin
The Holocaust as Culture: A Conversation with Imre Kertesz
Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian by Bernard Lewis
My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann
15 Journeys from Warsaw to London by Jasia Reichardt
The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution by Faramerz Dabhoiwala
Hidden Minds: A History of the Unconscious by Frank Tallis
After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America by John C. Burnham
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America by Rebecca Jo Plant
The War on Heresy by R. I. Moore
The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Decadence: An Annotated Anthology by Jane Desmarais and Chris Baldick
You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom by Nick Cohen
All Gall is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast by E. M. Cioran
Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places by Andrew Blackwell
Mosquito (Reaktion Books - Animal) by Richard Jones
Hyena (Reaktion Books - Animal) by Mikita Brottman

Poetry

Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel by Lenore Kandel
Good Grief by Stevie Edwards
Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Ghassan Zaqtan
Bunting's Persia by Don Share
Jindrich Heisler: Surrealism under Pressure, 1938-1953 (Art Institute of Chicago) by Matthew S. Witkovsky
Speech Lessons by John Montague
Aerial by Bin Ramke
Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook) by Chuan Xi
Olives: Poems by A.E. Stallings
After the Witch Hunt by Megan Falley
Inmost by Jessica Fisher
Mozart's Third Brain (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by G�ran Sonnevi
This Constellation Is a Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010 by Michael Heller
Partially Kept by Martha Ronk
Alpha Donut by Matvei Yankelevich
The Invention of Glass by Emmanuel Hocquard
Madame X by Darcie Dennigan

Fiction

My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausg�rd
Ambiguous Adventure by Hamidou Kane
Kaltenburg by Marcel Beyer
Neighbours: The Story of A Murder by Lilia Mompl�
Building Waves by Taeko Tomioka
Replacement by Tor Ulven
The Folded Earth: A Novel by Anuradha Roy
I Am an Executioner: Love Stories by Rajesh Parameswaran
Compulsory Happiness (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Norman Manea
Transparency by Marek Bie?czyk
Flowers of Grass by Takehiko Fukunaga
Berlin Cantata by Jeffrey Lewis
The Love of My Youth by Mary Gordon

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 M�ller
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 Andr�s 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 Mompl�
Wichita by Thad Ziolkowski
Children in Reindeer Woods by Kristin Omarsdottir
Before the End, After the Beginning by Dagoberto Gilb

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 H�ctor 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

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 Hel�ne 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

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