Readings completed for research or pleasure. Favourites in bold.
2024
- Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (trans. Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker)
- Junichiro Tanizaki, A Cat, A Man, and Two Women (trans. Paul McCarthy)
- Karl Thomas Smith, Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli
- Tacita Dean, Monet Hates Me
- Kobo Abe, The Face of Another (trans. E. Dale Saunders)
- Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment
- Amalie Smith, Marble (trans. Jennifer Russell)
- Werner Herzog, Of Walking in Ice (trans. Marje Herzog and Alan Greenberg)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye
- Dasa Drndic, Trieste (trans. Ellen Elias-Bursac)
- Daido Moriyama, How I Take Photographs (trans. Lucy North)
- Thyago Nogueira, ed. Daido Moriyama, A Retrospective
- Jazmina Barrera, Cross Stitch (trans. Christina MacSweeney)
- Kyoko Nakajima, The Little House (Ginny Tapley Takemori)
- Wim Wenders, The Act of Seeing (trans. Michael Hofmann)
- Kobo Abe, The Box Man (trans. E. Dale Saunders)
- Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes (trans. E. Dale Saunders)
- Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
- Daido Moriyama, Record
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (trans. William Weaver; re-read)
- Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo (trans. Douglas J. Weatherford)
- Ia Genberg, The Details (trans. Kira Josefsson)
- Joanna Walsh, My Life as a Godard Film
- Brian Dillon, Affinities: On Art and Fascination
- Wim Wenders, The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations (trans. Michael Hofmann)
2023
- Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile (trans. Bonnie Huie)
- Kathryn Scanlan, Kick the Latch
- Enrique Vila-Matas, Never Any End to Paris (trans. Anne McLean)
- Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic (trans. David Boyd)
- Chiu T’ien-Hsin, Old Capital (trans. Howard Goldblatt)
- Georges Rodenbach, Bruges-la-Morte (trans. Will Stone)
- Cal Flynn, Islands of Abandonment
- Kate Zambreno, To Write As If Already Dead
- Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd (trans. Christina MacSweeney; re-read)
- Valeria Luiselli, Sidewalks (trans. Christina MacSweeney; re-read)
- Marguerite Duras, On Writing (trans. Mark Polizzotti)
- Tony Duvert, District (trans. S. C. Delaney)
- Orhan Pamuk, The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
- Ella Baxter, New Animal
- Bennett Sims, Other Minds and Other Stories (out Nov. 2023)
- Sophie Calle, Hotel
- Esther Kinsky, Rombo (trans. Caroline Schmidt)
- Alba De Cespedes, Forbidden Notebook (trans. Ann Goldstein)
- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (trans. Edward Snow; re-read)
- CS Richardson, All the Colour in the World
- Tezer Özlü, Cold Nights of Childhood (trans. Maureen Freely)
- Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlor (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins)
- Kathryn Bromwich, At the Edge of the Woods
- Jeff Deutsch, In Praise of Good Bookstores
- Takashi Hiraide, The Guest Cat (trans. Eric Selland)
- Ivan Vladislavić, Double Negative
- Pedro Mairal, The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra (trans. Nick Castor)
- Joseph Brodsky, Watermark (re-read)
- Mieko Kanai, Mild Vertigo (trans. Polly Barton)
- Pico Iyer, A Beginner’s Guide to Japan
- Stephen Marche, On Writing and Failure
- Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (trans. Nicolas Pasternak Slater)
- Nathalie Sarraute, Tropisms (trans. Maria Jolas)
- Geoffrey D. Morrison, Falling Hour
- Ben Lerner, 10:04
- Michael Marder, Chernobyl Herbarium
- Vegetation under Power (Bauhaus Taschenbuch 26)
- Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos (trans. Michael Hofmann)
- Travis Holloway, How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene
- Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude (trans. Michael Henry Heim)
- Emmanuel Iduma, A Stranger’s Pose
- Mairead Small Staid, The Traces
- Tove Jansson, The True Deceiver (trans. Thomas Teal)
- Dubravka Ugrešić, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (trans. Celia Hawkesworth)
- Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre (trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich)
- Babak Lakghomi, South
- Teju Cole, Tremor
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