in lieu of a field guide

Below is what I read on the first half of the year, starting from the most recent. A total of 39 books, or an average 6.5 books per month. ...

Snow Country by Kawabata Yasunari, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker (Vintage International, 1996) Set in the perennially snow...

Woman in the Dunes (1964) Directed by Teshigahara Hiroshi Written by Abé Kobo based on his novel 2 hours, 27 minutes; with English subtit...

Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by Anne McLean (New Directions, 2011) I told him I was preparing a three-day le...

Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (Viking Penguin, 2003) The lecture as a species of the novel? And this academic invasion works ? I...