Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Mathias Énard's THE ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE GRAVEDIGGERS GUILD (Tr Frank Wynne)

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I never realized, before plunging into the fray of Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild , that a work of fiction...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Andreas Eschbach's THE CARPET MAKERS (Tr by Doryl Jensen)

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Andreas Eschbach has not been on my radar before now, but I'm determined to make up for all the time I've missed knowing his work, f...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Laszlo Krasznahorkai's BARON WENCKHEIM'S HOMECOMING (Tr Ottilie Muzet)

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One of the funniest, saddest and most stupid character deaths since the middle interlude in Stephen King's The Stand , and -- for a diff...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Vladimir Sorokin's BLUE LARD (Tr by Max Lawton

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About midway through Vladimir Sorokin's infamous, absurd and obscene  Blue Lard , a very au courant couple in an alternate ( very altern...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Laszlo Krasznahorkai's CHASING HOMER (Tr John Batki)

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...when you stand there paralyzed and stinking, doused with gasoline, and see the flame of that lighter getting closer and closer, and when ...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Benjamin Myers' THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE

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He knows there is something else under all this. He knows there exists an under-England, a chthonic place of hidden rivers and buried relics...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Pip Adam's AUDITION

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I am thinking very hard for a moment but trying not to go quiet like we did the last time we tried to think very hard. One of the sillier, y...