Astra Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Aesthetica
Allie RowbottomAstra Magazine“Rowbottom leaves ample room for ambivalence, and while Aesthetica is pitch-black and occasionally distressing, it is never didactic. What is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ is often hazy.” Philippa Snow reviews Allie Rowbottom’s debut novel: https://t.co/RfXfT6jSMV
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bloater
Rosemary TonksAstra Magazine“The joy of reading The Bloater is in the vitality of Tonks’s sentences, which are teeming with sensory particulars and surprising, delightful connections.” @madelaine_lucas on Rosemary Tonks. https://t.co/2ZIbNAXanU
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Is Mother Dead
Vigdis HjorthAstra Magazine“I’m inspired to act where I can.” @MakennaGoodman1 interviews Vigdis Hjorth, whose novel Is Mother Dead, translated by Charlotte Barslund, is out this week from @VersoBooks: https://t.co/HZWkk0JI1c
Paperback, 2023
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Man Without Qualities, Volume 2
Robert MusilAstra Magazine“The novel reserves its sharpest satire for the arts-aligned characters.” @SophEAtkinson considers the tug of war between science and the arts in The Man Without Qualities.
Paperback, 1996
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bad Girls
Camila VilladaAstra Magazine“Bad Girls imagines a future and exorcises a past, being exceptional for what it promises and for the portrait of a life it leaves behind.” —@sputnikon3
Hardcover, 2022
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Translating Myself and Others
Jhumpa LahiriAstra Magazine“As a book of personal essays, Translating Myself and Others is less about translating or others than it is about the ways in which translation refracts Lahiri’s multiple selves.” —Julia Sanches https://astra-mag.com/articles/two-sides-of-the-same-coin/
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Toad
Katherine DunnAstra Magazine"Toad comes closest to lucidity in moments like these: when the dry humor for which Dunn is known edges into something resembling a serious engagement with the domestic politics of the liberation movement." @ashley_e_c on Katherine Dunn's Toad. https://t.co/SLSY2md4JR
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bad Eminence
James GreerAstra Magazine“Frankly, it’s exhausting.” Digby Warde-Aldam (@AldamDigby) takes on James Greer’s très meta caper, Bad Eminence. https://t.co/bXdNQxsCCv
Hardcover, 2022
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Goose
Yiyun LiAstra Magazine“My third grade, from that point on, became a less defined time.” A new essay on childhood from Yiyun Li. (And her next novel, The Book of Goose, is out next week @fsgbooks.) https://t.co/b6fyHlTxVB
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On the Line
Joseph PonthusAstra MagazineNew today: A review of Joseph Ponthus' On the Line by @ArianaHar and Ariana Saenz, translated by Sarah Moses https://t.co/4H7wdG0qUK
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book