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War and Turpentine
Read more: War and TurpentineDate: 2016 Author: Stefan Hertmans, translated from the Dutch by David McKay When prolific Flemish-Belgian author Stefan Hertmans discovered his…
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How to Set a Fire and Why
Read more: How to Set a Fire and WhyDate: 2016 Author: Jesse Ball Lucia Stanton is a hoodie-hidden teenager in a bombed out and existential universe, or as…
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A World Apart
Read more: A World ApartDate: 1951 (1996) Author: By Gustaw Herling, translated from the Polish by Andrzej Ciolkosz Polish writer Gustaw Herling’s memoir of…
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Missing Person
Read more: Missing PersonDate: 1980 (2005) Author: Patrick Modiano, translated from the French by Daniel Weissbort It’s 1966 in Paris, a gloomy city…
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Gutshot
Read more: GutshotDate: 2015 Author: Amelia Gray A couple hires a call girl and locks her into the ductwork of their home…
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Swallowed by the Cold
Read more: Swallowed by the ColdDate: 2016 Author: Jensen Beach In the first story of Jensen Beach’s moving but sometimes potholed collection, middle aged Swede…
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A Little Lumpen Novelita
Read more: A Little Lumpen NovelitaDate: 2002 (2014) Author: Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Roberto Bolaño won’t stay dead. Which can…
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A Cure for Suicide
Read more: A Cure for SuicideDate: 2015 Author: Jesse Ball A man wakes from a void and finds himself in a room in a house…
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Zero K
Read more: Zero KDate: 2016 Author: Don DeLillo Something simply doesn’t click in “Zero K,” a rare occurrence with a novelist as accomplished…
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Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
Read more: Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural ActsDate: 1968 (1978) Author: Donald Bartheleme American Donald Barthelme was a snake-charming Magritte with a pen, a satirical spokesman for…
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The North Water
Read more: The North WaterDate: 2016 Author: Ian McGuire It is somehow appropriate Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu released his tale of North American…
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The Story of My Teeth
Read more: The Story of My TeethDate: 2015 Author: Valeria Luiselli, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeny Mexican Valeria Luiselli has written an overly ingenious…























