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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Read more: Consider the Lobster: And Other EssaysDate: 2005 Author: David Foster Wallace Maybe you passed on David Foster Wallace’s rambling meta-opus “Infinite Jest” because you like…
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Slow Man
Read more: Slow ManDate: 2006 Author: J.M. Coetzee A divisive novel. The first part, about aging Australian photographer Paul Rayment, knocked from his…
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Stella Descending
Read more: Stella DescendingDate: 2001 Author: Linn Ullmann, translated from the Norwegian by Barbara Haveland Early in Ullmann’s brooding novel, a Norwegian police…
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Bush at War; Plan of Attack
Read more: Bush at War; Plan of AttackDate: 2003; 2004 Author: Bob Woodward History is an embarrassing mistress. It can make you look like a shill. These…
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In Search of a Distant Voice
Read more: In Search of a Distant VoiceDate: 1986 (2006) Author: Taichi Yamada, translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich Kasama Tsuneo is a brooding Tokyo immigration…
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Kafka on the Shore
Read more: Kafka on the ShoreDate: 2005 Author: Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel The key to this novel, if a key there is, is…
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Yellow Dog
Read more: Yellow DogDate: 2005 Author: Martin Amis Amis’ gifts are known. He’s trenchant, confident, a word merchant of breathtaking skill, and a…
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The Task of This Translator
Read more: The Task of This TranslatorDate: 2005 Author: Todd Hasek-Lowy Reading Todd Hasak-Lowy’s deviously resourceful stories is a bit like watching a child try to…
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A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
Read more: A Girl Becomes a Comma Like ThatDate: 2005 Author: Lisa Glatt Glatt isn’t kidding. A girl, her girl, really is a comma. A comma is an…
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Florida
Read more: FloridaDate: 2004 Author: Christine Schutt Afinalist for the National Book Award in 2004, Schutt’s book sold poorly. Overall, she’s had…
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Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden
Read more: Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin LadenDate: 2005 Author: Osama bin Laden, edited and introduced by Bruce Lawrence; translated by James Howarth Months before the invasion…
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Vertigo
Read more: VertigoDate: 1990 (1999) Author: W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Michael Hulse Sebald, who transcends genre, is a writer…
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