This Little Art
By: Kate Briggs
4.35
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending s…
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1. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
2. Essayism
By: Brian Dillon
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
The essay is a venerable form that may well be the genre of the future. It has its origins in a mod… read more
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3. Sabbath's Theater
By: Philip Roth
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Sabbath's Theateris a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero… read more
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4. Permagel
By: Eva Baltasar
3.85
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Permagel és aquella part de la terra que no es desglaça mai i és la membrana que revesteix l’heroïn… read more
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"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"-Eva Baltasar, Permagel
"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"-Eva Baltasar, Permagel
"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"-Eva Baltasar, Permagel
5. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
6. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- literature
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
7. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- womens
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
8. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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- womens
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
9. The House on Via Gemito
By: Domenico Starnone
3.65
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico S… read more
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- literature
- art
10. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- writing
11. A New Name: Septology VI-VII
By: Jon Fosse
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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- literature
"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
12. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
13. Translating Myself and Others
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary transla… read more
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- memoir
- language
- nonfiction
- writing
- essays
- literary criticism
"To translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"To translate is to alter one’s linguistic coordinates, to grab on to what has slipped away, to cope with exile."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer’s work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mi…"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose ex…"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
14. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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- literature
15. Indelicacy
By: Amina Cain
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more
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- art
- womens
"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
16. Ungeenheden
By: Fine Gråbøl
3.68
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
Ungeenheden er Fine Gråbøls debut. En omsorgsfuld og kritisk roman om en gruppe unge i psykiatrien … read more
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- literature
"Our daily routines are our best illusions of new beginnings, a new cycle."-Fine Gråbøl, Ungeenheden
17. Fifty Sounds
By: Polly Barton
4.15
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
In this dazzling debut, Polly Barton reflects on her experience of moving to the Japanese island of… read more
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- memoir
- language
- nonfiction
- writing
- essays
"Over time, I have come to believe that if language learning is anything, it is the always-bruised but ever-renewing desire to draw close: to a person, a territory, a culture, an idea, an indefinable …"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Very often a desire to write is a desire to live more honestly through language' (Rachel Cusk)…In writing, one can be at a remove not only from the observing eye of society, but also from the somatic…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
18. The Second Body
By: Daisy Hildyard
3.63
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in the possession of a physical body, a… read more
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- theory
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
19. This Little Art
By: Kate Briggs
4.35
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending s… read more
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- art
- memoir
- language
- literature
- theory
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- womens
- literary criticism
20. Suppose a Sentence
By: Brian Dillon
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, … read more
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- art
- language
- nonfiction
- writing
- essays
- literary criticism
21. Out of Earth
By: Sheyla Smanioto
3.84
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
First translation into English of Desesterro, the multiple prize-winning novel by Sheyla Smanioto f… read more
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