WLT Book Reviews | January 2011


FICTION

  • Blooms of Darkness
    Aharon Appelfeld. Jeffrey M. Green, tr.

  • Specters
    Radwa Ashour. Barbara Romaine, tr.

  • Des éclairs
    Jean Echenoz

  • La erótica del relato: Escritores de la nueva literatura agentina
    Jimena Néspolo & Matías Néspolo, comp.

  • Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil
    Flix

  • La carte et la territoire
    Michel Houellebecq

  • Great House
    Nicole Krauss

  • Aunt Rézia and the Spirits and Other Stories
    Yahnik Lahens

  • Dark Heart of the Night
    Léonora Miano. Tasmin Black, tr.

  • The Book of the Dead
    Kgebelti Moele

  • I Curse the River of Time
    Per Petterson. Charlotte Barslund, tr.

  • A Thousand Peaceful Cities
    Jerzy Pilch. David Frick, tr.

  • Szentek hárfája
    László Szilasi

  • Aurorarama
    Jean-Christophe Valtat


VERSE

  • Tigers at Awhitu
    Sarah Broom

  • passionate travelouge: new and collected poetic sequences
    Alvin Greenberg

  • The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974-2008
    Jayanta Mahapatra

  • An Autumn Wind
    Derek Mahon

  • Book of the Edge
    Ece Temelkuran. Deniz Perin, tr.

  • Wait
    C. K. Williams


MISCELLANEOUS

  • Beyond Words: Translating the World
    Susan Ouriou, ed.

  • Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook
    Claudio Iván Remeseira, ed. & intro. Andrew Delbanco, foreword

  • Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen
    Richard Bensam, ed.

  • Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
    Apostolos K. Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou. Alecos Papadatos & Annie Di Donna, ill.

  • Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
    Mary Roach

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