Short write-ups of three very different books: a new linguistics book intended for a general audience, a splendid book on Picasso’s drawings & an epistolary classic of some sorts…
There’s even one I can recommend 100%!
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- KOLYMA STORIES – Varlam Shalamov (1954-1965, transl. 2018) & TELLURIA – Vladimir Sorokin (2013, transl. 2022)
- DIASPORA – Greg Egan (1997)
- MEGANETS: HOW DIGITAL FORCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL COMMANDEER OUR DAILY LIVES AND INNER REALITIES – David B. Auerbach (2023)
- VERGETEN SCHEDELS – Louis Paul Boon & Roger van de Velde (1946 & 1969)
- SHADOWS LINGER – Glen Cook (1984)
- TWO BERND & HILLA BECHER BOOKS (2005 & 2022)
- NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR – George Orwell (1949)
- DROWNING PRACTICE – Mike Meginnis (2022)
- FOUNDATION TRILOGY – Isaac Asimov (1951-’53)
- ROCK & ROLL MET FRIEDA VINDEVOGEL – J.M.H. Berckmans (1991)
- A MOUNTAIN TO THE NORTH, A LAKE TO THE SOUTH, PATHS TO THE WEST, A RIVER TO THE EAST – László Krasznahorkai (2003, transl. 2022)
- THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH – Walter Tevis (1963)
- THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION – J.G. Ballard (1970)
- HAUNTED WASPS – Shirley Jackson & Iain Banks (1959 & 1984)
Weighing a pig doesn't fatten it. 