The New York Review of Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Murderer
Roy Heath
“Like many of his pioneering generation, Roy Heath stayed in Britain until his death; in his fiction, though, he returned again and again to Guyana.” —Colin Grant on The Murderer https://t.co/vNBbqietvi
Paperback, 1986
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Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty
“With 574 federally recognized tribes, no one writer or book can represent them all. Talty’s stories contain details specific to being Penobscot, but this is only part of who his characters are.” —@KerriArsenault on Morgan Talty’s Night of the Living Rez https://t.co/JTZik7FyPV
Paperback, 2022
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Very Cold People
Sarah Manguso
In ‘Very Cold People,’ Sarah Manguso captures the bewilderment of childhood in the narrator’s flat observations about situations she doesn’t fully understand, supplemented by feral imaginings. Nicole Rudick reviews Manguso’s first novel. https://t.co/48U4ZyscHF
Paperback, 2023
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Pollak's Arm
Hans Von Trotha
“How do we respond to barbarians at the gates?” Ingrid Rowland reviews Hans von Trotha‘s haunting new novel ‘Pollak‘s Arm.’ https://t.co/gddAPaUf0j
Paperback, 2022
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Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty
Kerri Arsenault (@KerriArsenault) on Morgan Talty’s short story collection, Night of the Living Rez https://t.co/W7Dp81h32h
Paperback, 2022
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Yoga
Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère, writes Adam Thirlwell, “abandoned fiction to explore a new territory of nonfiction or autofiction: an apparent universe of true stories, but one where the subject was still madness or suffering or mania.” https://t.co/eMislQgX4E
Paperback, 2023
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The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet
Georgius Everhardus Rumphius
Free from the Archives “If you revel in the struggle of humanity to comprehend the vastness and beauty of nature...then this book will repay you a thousandfold.” Tim Flannery in 1999 on The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet https://go.nybooks.com/3MwKtE0
Hardcover, 1999
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The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
Olga Ravn
Olga Ravn’s novel “The Employees” is gnomic and elliptical where most science fiction is expository. Laura Miller reviews the book in our latest issue. https://t.co/DnSEtIIFZG
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty
Kerri Arsenault (@KerriArsenault) on Morgan Talty’s short story collection, Night of the Living Rez https://t.co/W7Dp81h32h
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Acting Class
Nick Drnaso
Gabriel Winslow-Yost on recent graphic novels from Nick Drnaso and Tommi Parrish https://t.co/YHMfWaa3MR
Hardcover, 2022
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