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New Features:
Rodney Powell of The University of Chicago Press reminds us of When Movies Mattered in a new Editors Speak
Review: The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott (Reviewed by Chris Corning)
Review: The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary by Andrew Westoll (Reviewed by Jennifer Campbell)
Fred Appel, senior editor at Princeton University Press , provides an exegesis of the genesis of that press’s new “Lives of Great Religious Books” series in a new Editors Speak
Review: We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen (Reviewed by Daniel Benjamin)
Review: Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton (Reviewed by Aaron Greenberg)
Lauren Wein, editor at Grove/Atlantic, reveals to us the dual births of her child and Francisco Goldman’s tremendous new novel in a new installment of Editors Speak.
John Donatich, of Yale University Press, increases the expanse of our knowledge with a new Editors Speak on the poetry of Adonis
Review: The Evolution of a Human Head by David E. Lieberman (Reviewed by Jennifer Campbell)
Review: The Ambassador by Bragi Ólafsson; trans. by Lytton Smith (Reviewed by Daniel Benjamin)
Review: How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu (Reviewed by Stan Izen)
Review: What Ever Happened to Modernism? by Gabriel Josipovici (Reviewed by Stan Izen)
Mary E. Laur divulges the process by which nine years of work can be compiled into a coherent book–like Blair Kamin’s Terror and Wonder–in a new Editors Speak.
Another helping of staff recommendations from the folks at 57th Street Books
Why shop locally? Read AGAINST AMAZON, a new archive of articles and editorials created to educate consumers about the problems and politics of doing business with the beast.
Eli Horowitz, managing editor and publisher of McSweeney’s, delves into the health and labors of Adam Levin, author of The Instructions.
Review: Panopticon by David Bajo (Reviewed by Chris Corning)
Book List: John Reimringer, author of Vestments, provides some of his favorite reads from the summer
In an unusual new Editors Speak, Sharmila Sen of Harvard University Press considers translation, colonialism, and the mutability of feeling after the publication of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.
Review: Rickshaw Boy by Lao She (Reviewed by Dylan Suher)
Review: Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia by Jonathan Rosenbaum (Reviewed by Patrick Brown)
Review: Ten Walks/Two Talks by Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch (Reviewed by Hannah Manshel)
Review: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford (Reviewed by Nicole Perrin)
Review: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (Reviewed by Dylan Suher)
Review: Living Souls by Dmitry Bykov (Reviewed by Amanda DeMarco)
In The News: The Writer Magazine likes our virtual front table; Melville House calls us “Champions of the Midwest” on Moby Lives; Publisher’s Weekly notes the success of our SCBWI panel; The Chicago Reader, The Second Pass and The Utne Reader enjoy Mary Laur’s essay on the new Chicago Manual of Style.
Mary E. Laur explores the difficulties in being the authority in an excellent new Editors Speak on The Chicago Manual of Style’s 16th Edition.
Review: The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel (Reviewed by James Liu)
Julia Keller raves about Co-Op Staff favorite Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada in The Chicago Tribune.
Review: Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trai (Reviewed by Dylan Suher)
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Review: The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Reviewed by Stephanie Turza)
Two great lists of must-read graphic novels from The Seminary Co-op staff, here and here.
Review: Cecilia by Linda Ferri (Reviewed by Nicole Perrin)
Review: Microscripts by Robert Walser (Reviewed by Stan Izen)
Review: Nox by Anne Carson (Reviewed by Daniel Benjamin)
Review: Fado by Andrej Stasiuk (Reviewed by Lauren Goldenberg)
Review: To Mervas by Elisabeth Rynell (Reviewed by Nicole Perrin)
Review: The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm (Reviewed by Eileen Fay)
Review: Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (Reviewed by James Liu)
Review: Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict by Irene Vilar (Reviewed by Amy Kunkel)
In a new Editors Speak, New Directions’ Declan Spring gives us some context for an exciting new book-in-a-box from Anne Carson
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)
