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'New Animal' by Ella Baxter

'The deceased are beyond beautiful, but only because they are emptied of worry.'—Review #217

Sep 24

'Middlemarch' by George Eliot

'The business was felt to be so public and important that it required dinners to feed it, and many invitations were just then issued and accepted on the…

Sep 11 •

August 2023

3 from BoG: Random Books I Read This Summer

'The Education of Kendrick Perkins' by Kendrick Perkins with Seth Rogoff, 'Nietzsche in Italy' by Guy de Pourtalès and 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace…

Aug 27 •

'Boulder' by Eva Baltasar

'She holds my hand and I light three cigarettes with my mind.'—Review #214

Aug 13 •

July 2023

'Sweet Days of Discipline' by Fleur Jaeggy

'Was I perhaps punishing Frédérique for my love?'—Review #213

Jul 30 •

'Near to the Wild Heart' by Clarice Lispector

'How can I punish myself enough, how to open myself to the world and to death?'—Review #212

Jul 16 •

'Possession: A Romance' by A.S. Byatt

'Outside our small safe place flies Mystery.'—Review #211

Jul 2 •

June 2023

What's on your summer reading list?

Hello friends! Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. Happy Juneteenth, too! Donna and I are taking a break from the newsletter this week…

Jun 18 •

'Trust' by Hernan Diaz

'Generosity is the mother of ingratitude.'—Review #210

Jun 4 •

May 2023

'The Books of Jacob' by Olga Tokarczuk

'And how exactly would a saved world differ from an unsaved world?'—Review #209

May 21 •

It's Books on GIF's 7th Anniversary!

Our 7 favorite novels and 7 favorite nonfiction books from the past 7 years.

May 7 •

April 2023

'The Cabinet' by Un-Su Kim

'That there is no moral of the story—that's the moral of the story.'—Review #208

Apr 23 •

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