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New Features:

Review: The Infinities by John Banville (Reviewed by Stan Izen)

Review: The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven (Reviewed by Jeff Waxman) Winner of The 2010 Best Translated Book Award in fiction

Here, The Reader praises the Co-op Bookstores in their rundown of Hyde Park

Another Round of Staff Recommendations

Review: Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steven Amsterdam (Reviewed by Danielle Dahlin)

Celebrate Small Press Month with the excellent Interventions series from Semiotext(e)

Check out some recent Hyde Park book club selections

Amy Hundley of Grove/Atlantic reflects on Jim Harrison’s work in a new Editors Speak

Review: Swell by Ioanna Karystiani (Reviewed by Nicole Perrin)

57th Street Books Children’s Coodinator Angela Sherrill has words of praise for a forthcoming YA novel in a new Galley Talk.

On Three Percent, a guest post by Jeff Waxman on the anxiety of a bookseller

Review: The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk (Reviewed by Dylan Suher)

In an excellent new Editors Speak, Judith Gurewich, Publisher of Other Books, tells us why she no longer publishes Lacan.

Book List: Some highlights of the Winter 2010 Coursebooks, from Douglas Riggs, our esteemed Coursebooks Manager

Review: The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov (Reviewed by James Liu)

Review: Ransom by David Malouf (Reviewed by Stan Izen)

Book List: Seven Recommendations from 57th Street Books

Review:  Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger (Reviewed by James Liu)

In a new Editors Speak, John Donatich recounts the story of Yale University Press’s Why X Matters series, and the back story to Paul Goldberger’s contribution, Why Architecture Matters.

Review: Jerusalem by Gonçalo M. Tavares (Reviewed by Olga Romadin)

Review: Pacific Agony by Bruce Benderson (Reviewed by Nicole Perrin)

UPfront: A excellent list of recent University of Chicago Press titles by their own Lindsay Dawson

Review: The System of Vienna by Gert Jonke (Reviewed by Eileen Fay)

Review: Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, Farewell by Javier Marías (Reviewed by Stan Izen)

Uncommon: Michael Greenberg reflects on rereading The Brothers Karamazov in a new essay.

Review:  The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam (Reviewed by Amanda DeMarco)

This month, Kent Carroll of Europa Editions reflects on the events that led him to publish Jane Gardam’s Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat in a new Editors Speak.

Uncommon/Review: Amanda DeMarco, in Berlin during the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, reviews The Wall in My Head, a new anthology from Words Without Borders and Open Letter.

Review: Talking with Sarte: Conversations & Debates edited by John Gerassi (Reviewed by Lee Plaxco)

Review:  Fitzgerald & Hemingway: Works and Days by Scott Donaldson (Reviewed by James Liu)

Review: Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (Reviewed by Amanda DeMarco)

 A previous Editors Speak essay in which Dalkey Archive Press Editor Martin Riker discusses publishing three Toussaint novels in one year.

Review: Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Reviewed by David Sheffieck)

In the News: 57th Street Books is featured on Granta.com in celebration of Granta’s Issue 108: Chicago

Mary E. Laur considers the pleasure and limits of print reference books as she discusses the creation of The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion in a new installment of Editors Speak.

Book List: Five Recommendations from the Staff at 57th Street Books

Review: The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes (Reviewed by David Derbes)

UPfront: This feature has been reinvented with a list by John Eklund

Book List: See the National Book Award Finalists here

Review: Elephants on the Edge by G. A. Bradshaw (Reviewed by Jennifer Campbell)

Review: Totally Killer by Greg Olear (Reviewed by Stephanie Turza)

Review: Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr (Reviewed by Jajah Wu)

Vickie Kearn, editor of Steven Strogatz’s The Calculus of Friendship, reflects on her own favorite math teacher in a new Editors Speak.

Review: The Book of Jokes by Momus (Reviewed by David Sheffieck)

Review: Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle (Reviewed by Katelyn Eichwald)

Events: Download our events calendar here & here. And then come to our events!

Review: Border Town by Shen Congwen (Reviewed by Dylan Suher)

Review: The Jewish Husband by Lia Levi (Reviewed by Dylan Suher)

New in Paperback: A year after our launch, many of our early reviews are being released in paperback. Check them out here!

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

Doug Seibold, editor and publisher of Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s new collection Forward from this Moment, explains his fascination with Pitts and his work in a new installment of Editors Speak.

Review: In Praise of Doubt by Peter Berger and Anton Zijderveld (Reviewed by James Liu)

Review: Op Oloop by Juan Filloy (Reviewed by James Liu)

Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (Reviewed by Stan Izen)

New Directions Editor Declan Spring unwinds the excellent story of Alvin Levin and the eventual publication of Love Is Like Park Avenue in a new Editors Speak.

Review: Some Dream for Fools by Faïza Guène (Reviewed by Danielle Dahlin)

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