Out of the Woods Now

"Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand--that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us." ~ Annie Dillard, "An Expedition to the Pole"

and back on the shelf

Peter Lerangis ~ The Sword Thief
Gordon Korman ~ One False Note
Rick Riordan ~ The Maze of Bones
Barbara Kingsolver ~ The Poisonwood Bible
Simon Lelic ~ A Thousand Cuts
Alan Bradley ~ The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Kate DiCamillo (illus. Bagram Ibatoulline) ~ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Ted Chiang ~ The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Diane Setterfield ~ The Thirteenth Tale
Sharon Creech ~ Walk Two Moons
Don DeLillo ~ Underworld
Harlan Coben ~ Tell No One
Edmundo Paz Soldán (trans. Lisa Carter) ~ Turing's Delirium
Cynthia Voigt ~ The Callender Papers
E.L. Doctorow ~ Ragtime
Pierre Bayard (trans. Charlotte Mandell) ~ Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles
John Knowles ~ A Separate Peace
Lemony Snicket (illus. Maira Kalman) ~ 13 Words
Sara Gruen ~ Water for Elephants
Gilbert Adair ~ The Death of the Author
Maurice Sendak (trans. ) ~ Donde viven los monstruos
Juli Zeh (trans. Christine Lo) ~ In Free Fall
César Aira ~ Cumpleaños
Matt Ruff ~ Bad Monkeys
Clarice Lispector (trans. Ana Poljak) ~ La hora de la estrella
Miguel de Unamuno ~ Niebla
Steig Larsson (trans. Reg Keeland) ~ The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) ~ The Days of Abandonment
Andrés Neuman ~ Bariloche
Teobaldo Noriega ~ Doliente piel de hombre
Teobaldo Noriega ~ Polvo enamorado
Laura Restrepo ~ Olor a rosas invisibles
Jean Echenoz (trans. Mark Polizzotti) ~ Piano
Vladimir Nabokov ~ The Original of Laura
David Toscana (trans. Asa Zatz) ~ The Last Reader
Alan Bradley ~ The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Paul Auster ~ Invisible
Rebecca Stead ~ When You Reach Me
John Jairo Junieles ~ El temblor del kamikaze
Teobaldo Noriega ~ Ars Amandi
Teobaldo Noriega ~ Duende de noche
Teobaldo Noriega ~ Candela viva
Don DeLillo ~ White Noise
Margaret Atwood ~ The Blind Assassin
Antonio Ungar ~ Las orejas del lobo
Mario Mendoza ~ La travesía del vidente
Paul Auster ~ Man in the Dark
Cormac McCarthy ~ The Road
Jed Rubenfeld ~ The Interpretation of Murder
Pierre Bayard (trans. Carol Cosman) ~ Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Murderer Who Eluded Hercule Poirot and Deceived Agatha Christie
Stieg Larsson (trans. Reg Keeland) ~ The Girl Who Played with Fire
Linwood Barclay ~ No Time for Goodbye
Rupert Thomson ~ Divided Kingdom
Suzanne Jill Levine ~ The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction
Jedediah Berry ~ The Manual of Detection
Andrew Pyper ~ The Killing Circle
Tana French ~ The Likeness
Sarah Hall ~ The Carhullan Army
Jorge Franco (trans. Katherine Silver) ~ Paradise Travel
Karin Fossum (trans. Charlotte Barslund) ~ Black Seconds
Muriel Spark ~ Symposium
Ricardo Silva Romero ~ En orden de estatura
Kurt Vonnegut ~ Cat's Cradle
John Berger ~ From A to X: A Story in Letters
Jasper Fforde ~ First Among Sequels
Orlando Mejía Rivera ~ El enfermo de Abisinia
Chuck Palahniuk ~ Lullaby
Chico Buarque (trans. Alison Entrekin) ~ Budapest
W.G. Sebald (trans. Michael Hulse) ~ The Rings of Saturn
Cornelia Funke (trans. Anthea Bell) ~ Inkheart
Christian Jungersen (trans. Anna Paterson) ~ The Exception
Henrik Ibsen (trans. Edmund Gosse and William Archer) ~ Hedda Gabler
Ross Raisin ~ God's Own Country
Kate Summerscale ~ The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
Toni Morrison ~ Beloved
Paul Auster ~ Oracle Night
Gabriel García Márquez ~ El otoño del patriarca
L.M. Montgomery ~ Emily of New Moon
Dennis Lehane ~ Gone, Baby, Gone
J.K. Rowling (trans. Hermione Granger) ~ The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Antonio Muñoz Molina ~ En ausencia de Blanca
Anne Carson ~ The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Vladimir Nabokov (trans. Michael Scammell) ~ The Luzhin Defense
Philip Kerr ~ A Quiet Flame
José Carlos Somoza (trans. Sonia Soto) ~ The Athenian Murders
Lawrence Venuti ~ The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation
Lawrence Venuti ~ The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference
Guillermo Martínez ~ Borges y la matemática
David Markson ~ The Last Novel
B.S. Johnson ~ Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
Paul Auster ~ Leviathan
Agatha Christie ~ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Stieg Larsson (trans. Reg Keeland) ~ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
André Lefevere, ed. ~ Translation/History/Culture: A Sourcebook
Jean Boase-Beier and Michael Holman, eds. ~ The Practices of Literary Translation: Constraints and Creativity
Josephine Tey ~ The Daughter of Time
Daniel Weissbort, ed. ~ Translating Poetry: The Double Labyrinth
J.M. Coetzee ~ Diary of a Bad Year
Clifford E. Landers ~ Literary Translation: A Practical Guide
Susan Bassnett ~ Translation Studies
Per Petterson (trans. Anne Born) ~ Out Stealing Horses
Anne Carson ~ Glass and God
Andrew Chesterman and Emma Wagner ~ Can Theory Help Translators?: A Dialogue Between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface
David Leavitt ~ The Indian Clerk
Richard Gwyn ~ The Color of a Dog Running Away
David Edmonds and John Eidinow ~ Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
Jim, Naomi, and Kirsten Sheridan ~ In America: A Portrait of the Film
Harry Mulisch (trans. Paul Vincent) ~ The Discovery of Heaven
Arthur Conan Doyle ~ The Sign of the Four
Lemony Snicket ~ The Beatrice Letters
Tom Rob Smith ~ Child 44
Agatha Christie ~ The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Lemony Snicket ~ The End
Mark Salzman ~ Lying Awake
Jorge Isaacs ~ María
Rachel Cusk ~ A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother
Lemony Snicket ~ The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket ~ The Grim Grotto
Umberto Eco ~ Experiences in Translation
M.T. Anderson ~ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party
Laura Lippman ~ What the Dead Know
Susan Choi ~ A Person of Interest
Karin Fossum (trans. Charlotte Barslund) ~ The Indian Bride
Tana French ~ In the Woods
L.M. Montgomery ~ Anne of Green Gables
Dava Sobel ~ Longitude
John Banville ~ The Sea
Charles Bock ~ Beautiful Children
Paul Auster ~ The Brooklyn Follies
Thomas Pynchon ~ Against the Day
John Fowles ~ The Magus
Richard Yates ~ Revolutionary Road
Tom McCarthy ~ Remainder
Michael Ondaatje ~ Anil's Ghost
Neil Gaiman ~ American Gods
Benjamin Black ~ Christine Falls
Kirstin Allio ~ Garner
Gene Wolfe ~ The Fifth Head of Cerberus
José Saramago ~ Las pequeñas memorias
Philip Pullman ~ El reloj mecánico
Lemony Snicket ~ The Slippery Slope
Jorge Franco ~ Paraíso Travel
Jennifer Egan ~ The Keep
Dustin Long ~ Icelander
Adam Zagajewski (trans. Clare Cavanagh) ~ Mysticism for Beginners
Lemony Snicket ~ The Carnivorous Carnival
Ian McEwan ~ On Chesil Beach
Stephen Marche ~ Raymond + Hannah
Francisco Goldman ~ The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
Steve Erickson ~ Zeroville
Jo Walton ~ Farthing
Lemony Snicket ~ The Hostile Hospital
Antoine Wilson ~ The Interloper
Janet Malcolm ~ Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Natsuo Kirino (trans. Rebecca Copeland) ~ Grotesque
Adolfo Bioy Casares ~ La invención de Morel
Richard Powers ~ The Echo Maker
Philippa Gregory ~ The Other Boleyn Girl
Junot Díaz ~ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Jesse Ball ~ Samedi the Deafness
Azar Nafisi ~ Reading Lolita in Tehran
Vladimir Nabokov ~ Lolita
Gregory David Roberts ~ Shantaram
César Aira ~ El mago
Min Jin Lee ~ Free Food for Millionaires
J.K. Rowling ~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Yann Martel ~ Life of Pi
Annie Dillard ~ The Maytrees
Paul Auster ~ The Book of Illusions
William H. Gass ~ Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
Edith Wharton ~ Madame de Treymes
David Mitchell ~ Cloud Atlas
Mario Mendoza ~ Satanás
Laura Restrepo ~ Delirio
James Longenbach ~ The Resistance to Poetry
David Markson ~ Reader's Block
Roberto Bolaño ~ La pista de hielo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ~ Purple Hibiscus
Philip Pullman ~ The Amber Spyglass
John Barth ~ Lost in the Funhouse
Arthur Conan Doyle ~ A Study in Scarlet
Michael Chabon ~ Wonder Boys
Laird Hunt ~ The Exquisite
Vladimir Nabokov ~ Speak, Memory
Agatha Christie ~ And Then There Were None
Patrick Süskind (trans. Pilar Giralt Gorina) ~ El perfume: Historia de un asesino
Julio Cortázar ~ Historia de cronopios y de famas
Stendhal (trans. Burton Raffel) ~ The Red and the Black
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ~ Wizard of the Crow
Scarlett Thomas ~ The End of Mr. Y
Marisha Pessl ~ Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Agatha Christie ~ Nemesis
Jostein Gaarder (trans. Paulette Moller) ~ Sophie's World
Stephen Hawking ~ A Brief History of Time
Gabriel García Márquez ~ Del amor y otros demonios
Arturo Pérez-Reverte (trans. Margaret Jull Costa) ~ The Flanders Panel
Alain Robbe-Grillet (trans. Richard Howard) ~ Jealousy
Richard Powers ~ Plowing the Dark
Mary Doria Russell ~ The Sparrow
Isabel Allende (trans. Margaret Sayers) ~ The Infinite Plan
Richard Powers ~ Galatea 2.2
Gabriel García Márquez ~ El amor en los tiempos del cólera
John Banville ~ Kepler
Martha Cooley ~ The Archivist
Javier Marías (trans. Margaret Jull Costa) ~ Written Lives
Graham Greene ~ The End of the Affair
John Banville ~ Shroud
Sherill Tippins ~ February House
Helen Vendler ~ The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
Tori Amos and Ann Powers ~ Tori Amos: Piece by Piece
Jerry Spinelli ~ Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?
Philip Pullman ~ The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman ~ The Golden Compass
Blue Balliett ~ Chasing Vermeer
E.L. Konigsburg ~ The Second Mrs. Gioconda
Henrik Ibsen (trans. Peter Watts) ~ A Doll's House
Lemony Snicket ~ The Vile Village
Lemony Snicket ~ The Ersatz Elevator
Lemony Snicket ~ The Austere Academy
Lemony Snicket ~ The Miserable Mill
Lemony Snicket ~ The Wide Window
Lemony Snicket ~ The Reptile Room
Peter Lerangis ~ Spy X: The Code
Ellen Raskin ~ The Westing Game
Natalie Babbitt ~ Tuck Everlasting
Guillermo Martínez (trans. Sonia Soto) ~ The Oxford Murders
Gregory Rabassa ~ If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents
Eoin Colfer ~ Artemis Fowl
Jerry Spinelli ~ Maniac Magee
Lois Lowry ~ The Giver
E.L. Konigsburg ~ From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Gabriel García Márquez ~ Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Louis Sachar ~ Holes
Robert Cormier ~ I Am the Cheese
John Ashbery ~ Chinese Whispers
Ernest Hemingway ~ For Whom the Bell Tolls
Roald Dahl ~ The BFG
Elie Wiesel (trans. Marion Wiesel) ~ Night
L.M. Montgomery ~ Anne of the Island
L.M. Montgomery ~ Anne of Avonlea
Nancy Garden ~ Fours Crossing
Annie Dillard ~ Living by Fiction
Iris Murdoch ~ A Severed Head
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ~ Carmilla
Miguel de Cervantes (trans. Edith Grossman) ~ Don Quixote
Elizabeth Kostova ~ The Historian
Edward Gorey ~ The Unstrung Harp (or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel)
Lemony Snicket ~ The Bad Beginning
Kate Atkinson ~ Case Histories
J.K. Rowling ~ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Kate Chopin ~ The Awakening
Jasper Fforde ~ Something Rotten
Neil Gaiman ~ Neverwhere
Arturo Pérez-Reverte (trans. Sonia Soto) ~ The Club Dumas
James Luceno ~ Labyrinth of Evil
Luis Fernando Verissimo (trans. Margaret Jull Costa) ~ Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
Carl Rollyson ~ A Higher Form of Cannibalism?: Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography
T.S. Eliot ~ The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry
Flannery O'Connor ~ A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Alan Le May ~ The Unforgiven
Brian Boyd ~ Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery
Vladimir Nabokov ~ Lectures on Don Quixote
Paul Auster ~ The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum ~ Madeleine is Sleeping
Michael Ondaatje ~ In the Skin of a Lion
Italo Calvino (trans. Tim Parks) ~ Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
Robert Coover ~ Briar Rose
Annie Dillard ~ Pilgrim At Tinker Creek
John Harwood ~ Eliot to Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretation
Sébastien Japrisot (trans. Linda Coverdale) ~ A Very Long Engagement
Richard Russo ~ Straight Man
Donna Tartt ~ The Little Friend
Edward Lobb ~ T.S. Eliot and the Romantic Critical Tradition
Vladimir Nabokov ~ Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov ~ Despair
Bob Dylan ~ Chronicles, Volume One
Lyndall Gordon ~ Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life

“There are those who maintain that you can't demand anything of the reader. They say the reader knows nothing about art, and that if you are going to reach him, you have to be humble enough to descend to his level. This supposes that the aim of art is to teach, which it is not, or that to create anything which is simply a good-in-itself is a waste of time. Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it. We hear a great deal about humility being required to lower oneself, but it requires an equal humility and a real love of the truth to raise oneself and by hard labor to acquire higher standards.” ~ Flannery O'Connor

Out of the Woods Now

01 August 2005

Birth of Melville

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