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Diego Marani translated by Judith Landry Daedalus ($15.99) by John Toren In New Finnish Grammar, Diego Marani has set himself the difficult task of telling the

Dean Bakopoulos Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($24) by Will Wlizlo Why are you unhappy? Is it something small, like an unpaid electric bill or an obnoxious

A. D. Miller Anchor ($14.95) by Malcolm Forbes Miller’s debut novel concerns Nick Platt, a rootless Englishman up to his neck in lawless, modern-day Moscow.

China Miéville Del Rey ($16) by Nathaniel Forsythe In the early 17th century, the Tokugawa shogunate that ruled Japan imposed the policy of sakoku, prohibiting all

John Sayles McSweeney’s ($29) by Joshua Willey It is the perfect moment for a novel like the latest from filmmaker John Sayles, A Moment in the

Florence Howe The Feminist Press ($24.95) by E. J. Levy A perennial problem of modern American feminism, Susan Faludi convincingly claimed in Harper’s last year, is that it’s matricidal.

Erik Larson Crown ($26) by Rebecca Morales It is easy to wonder how Hitler gained so much power so quickly, and with so little resistance.

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Roberto Simanowski University of Minnesota Press ($25) by Chris Funkhouser Digital Art and Meaning begins by responding to Roy Ascott’s concept of “telematic embrace,” challenging the