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New York. Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780199734542 Schadenfreude, the act of taking pleasure in another’s pain, is the subject of University of Kentucky psychologist Richard H. Smith’s slim... -
London. Seagull Books (University of Chicago Press, distr.). 2013. ISBN 9780857420800 Silent conversations (the lowercase is indicative of Anthony Rudolf’s aura of mystery) is an account, alb... -
New York. Viking. 2013. ISBN 9780670025305 Good essayists make us reflect on the world that we presume to know. Their ideas, often controversial, remind us that life is full of mystery, wonder, and c... -
Peter Davison, ed. New York. Liveright / W. W. Norton. 2013. ISBN9780871404626 “When I was a kid you could walk into a bicycle shop or ironmonger’s and buy any firearm you pleased, short of a field gu... -
San Francisco. City Lights. 2013. ISBN 9780872866256 Beth Lisick understands nervous laughter. In Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, her new collection of forty-eight essays and oddbal... -
Chicago. Prickly Paradigm. 2013. ISBN 9780984201037 In the late winter and spring of 2011, Neil Hertz (literary critic, photographer, and professor emeritus in Johns Hopkins University’s English depar... -
Alastair McEwen, tr. New York / London. Rizzoli Ex Libris / MacLehose. 2013. ISBN 9780847841219 / 9780857052872 One only has to read two or three of Umberto Eco’s books to discover that he has made t... -
New York. Routledge. 2013. ISBN 9780415696296 Translation Changes Everything contains fourteen essays by Lawrence Venuti, professor of English at Temple University, one of the most influentia... -
C. Dickson, tr. Boston. David R. Godine. 2013. ISBN 9781567924602 Memoir is about writing to understand, about creating a meaningful narrative from the haze of events, lingering emotion, and sense me... -
Oxford, England. Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780199892884 Lin Shu, Inc. offers a multifaceted study of the translation practices of Lin Shu and his collaborators in late Qing and ea... -
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2013. ISBN 9780374115739 This brilliant essay collection provides sources for earlier works by Aleksandar Hemon, explores identity formation and diasporic double... -
Pico Iyer, foreword. London / Chicago. Peter Owen (IPG, distr.). 2012. ISBN 9780720614886 In a Time magazine movie review of Graham Greene’s The Comedians, its critic commented that... -
New York. Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307960580 Anne Carson’s Red Doc> is a brilliantly conceived hybrid both in form and content. Boldly mischievous in tone and risk-taking in spirit, it is lik... -
New York. Henry Holt. 2013. ISBN 9780805098570 His success as a novelist notwithstanding, autobiographical writing has been at the forefront of Paul Auster’s work from the time of his debut, The I... -
La lámpara maravillosa: Cuatro ensayos sobre la educación y un elogio a la lectura by William Ospina
Bogotá. Random House / Mondadori. 2012. ISBN 9789588640174 In an admirable page of La lámpara maravillosa: Cuatro ensayos sobre la educación y un elogio a la lectura (The marvelous lamp: Fou... -
Phillip Lopate. To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction. New York. Simon & Schuster / Free Press. 2013. ISBN 9781451696325 Portrait Inside...
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Philadelphia. Temple University Press. 2012. ISBN 9781439907597 June 4, 1989, remains a day of infamy for the Chinese government. The Chinese army opened fire that day on Chinese citizens (workers, re...
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New York. Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307270245 In his last work, Lebensanschauung (1918), the German sociologist Georg Simmel articulated a concept of the modern individual as a boundary between b...
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Geoff Wisner, ed. Boulder, Colorado. Lynne Rienner. 2013. ISBN 9781588268624 In African Lives, Geoff Wisner’s selection of memoirs (inclusive of an interview, a speech, and court testimony) a...
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Warsaw. Zeszyty Literackie. 2012. ISBN 9788360046364 In 1982 a courageous young woman, Barbara Toruńczyk, launched a new Polish literary magazine in Paris. Against all odds this magazine, Zeszyty...
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Jeffrey Angles, tr. Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2012. ISBN 9780816679362 Mutsuo Takahashi is one of the most prominent contemporary Japanese poets to have thematized homoeroticism. Thi...
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Tim Parks, tr. Brooklyn, New York. Archipelago. 2013. ISBN 9781935744740 The Woman of Porto Pim is an odd sort of treasure: a collage of literary fragments that together craft a portrait of b...
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San Antonio, Texas. Trinity University Press. 2012. ISBN 9781595341365 Kim Stafford’s moving memoir of loss and guilt about the suicide of his beloved brother, Bret, at age forty is brilliantly conce...
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New York. W.W. Norton. 2012. ISBN 9780393088908 Aman Sethi’s A Free Man joins such excellent recent nonfiction accounts of India as William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives, Katherine Boo’s...
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New York. Pegasus. 2013. ISBN 9781605984117 The thesis of Andrea Pitzer’s book on Vladimir Nabokov is an ambitious one, and its ambition is reflected in her title: The Secret Life of Vladimir Nabo...
