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  • Year in Review (2024)

    A recap of the last year of the website

  • Review

    Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young

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    Animal Money by Michael Cisco

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    The Taverner Novels by Mary Butts

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    Ultramarine by Malcolm Lowry

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    The Annual Banquet of the Gravedigger’s Guild by Mathias Énard

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    The Tunnel by William H. Gass

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    Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

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    Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann

  • Read Along

    Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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    Shyness & Dignity by Dag Solstad

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    Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu

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    Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

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    Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kono

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    The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso

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    Native Son by Richard Wright

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    The Notebook Trilogy by Agota Kristof

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    Augustus by John Williams

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    Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

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    War & War by Lásló Krasznahorkai

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    A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders