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Home  | Book Reviews  | July 2012 


FICTION

  • Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman

    Friedrich Christian Delius

     
  • Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Stories from Japan

    Helen Mitsios, ed. Pico Iyer, intro.

     
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

    Nathan Englander

     
  • A Muslim Suicide

    Bensalem Himmich

     
  • Parallel Stories

    Péter Nádas. Imre Goldstein, tr.

     
  • Il pleuvait des oiseaux

    Jocelyne Saucier

     
  • Spring

    David Szalay

     
  • Farewell Gift

    Vladimir Tasić

     
  • The Barbarian Nurseries

    Héctor Tobar

     


VERSE

  • The River White: A Confluence of Brush and Quill

    Ken Hada. Duane Hada, ill.

     
  • Yingelishi

    Jonathan Stalling

     
  • The Deleted World

    Tomas Tranströmer. Robin Robertson, tr.

     


MISCELLANEOUS

  • Oblivion: A Memoir

    Héctor Abad Faciolince. Anne McLean & Rosalind Harvey, tr.

     
  • Critical Dictionary of Mexican Literature (1955-2010)

    Christopher Domínguez Michael. Lisa M. Dillman, tr.

     
  • Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century’s Identity Crisis

    Aaron Rose & Mandy Kahn. Brian Roettinger, designer.

     

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