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New Features:

Review: Juan the Landless by Juan Goytisolo (Reviewed by Stan Izen)

Uncommon: Former Co-op bookseller Lauren Goldenberg recounts a poetry reading at Paris’s famed English-language bookshop Shakespeare & Co.

Review: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Reviewed by Megan Harrington)

Chad Post, Director of Open Letter Books, gives us a taste of the extraordinary work of Mercè Rodoreda in a new Editors Speak.

Read Hannah Manshel’s review of Rodoreda’s Death in Spring HERE.

Book List: Featured GLBTQ titles!

Review: A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi (Reviewed by Stephanie Turza)

New in Periodicals: Daedalus, The Point, and Areté are available now at 57th Street Books!

From Director of Princeton University Press (and Front Table contributor) Peter Dougherty, “A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing“in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Review: Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel (Reviewed by James Liu)

What I’m Reading: Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power and The New American Militarism, recommends three great books on American approach to statecraft, here.

A new, light UPfront!

Review: The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas (Reviewed by Joan Hives)

Deniz Baykal, a member of the Turkish parliament, recently presented President Obama with A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. Read a review here, on Three Percent.

Christie Henry, editor of Josh Buhs’ new book on Bigfoot, discusses the joys of publishing a scholarly book about such a persistent hoax in a new Editors Speak.

Review: Rose Alley by Jeremy M. Davies (Reviewed by John Eklund)

Review: Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda (Reviewed by Hannah Manshel)

Review: Captive Audience by Dave Reidy (Reviewed by David Sheffieck)

Andrey Platonov translator Robert Chandler recommends the fables of La Fontaine and Pushkin’s Onegin (among others) in a new book list, here.

A new installment of UPfront is available!

Review: The Women by T.C. Boyle (Reviewed by Mary Mittiga)

Review: That Mad Ache by Francoise Sagan (Reviewed by John Eklund)

Sharmila Sen (Harvard University Press) considers collective amnesia and its relation to Two Faiths, One Banner by Ian Almond in a new essay at Editors Speak.

Review: The Twin by Gerbrand Bekker (Reviewed by Lauren Goldenberg)

Review: Waveland by Frederick Barthelme (Reviewed by James Liu)

Review: The Withdrawal Method by Pasha Malla (Reviewed by Nicole Perrin)

Review: The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti (Reviewed by Rina Foygel)

A new Editors Speak contribution from Jeremy M. Davies of Dalkey Archive Press sings the praises of the incomparable Jacques Roubaud.

A new installment of UPfront is available!

Review: Don’t Cry by Mary Gaitskill (Reviewed by Katelyn Eichwald)

Review: Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity By Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor (Reviewed by Stan Izen)

Review: The Other Side of Desire by Daniel Bergner (Reviewed by Clarisse Thorn)

Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 wins the National Book Critic Circle Award for Fiction! Read Levi Stahl’s review of 2666 here!

Review: Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada (Reviewed by Levi Stahl)

Quarterly Conversation’s Spring Issue (#15) includes a contest to win credit to shop with the Seminary Co-op online. Enter Here!