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New Features:

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 note 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)