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November 1, 2018‘Killing Commendatore’ by Haruki Murakami
Art, music and mystery abound in the Japanese author’s latest novel
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October 1, 2018‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ by Olga Tokarczuk
Offbeat intrigue from a Booker Prize winner
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September 1, 2018‘One Hundred Years of Dirt’ by Rick Morton
A social affairs reporter turns the pen on himself
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August 1, 2018‘Less’ by Andrew Sean Greer
The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is an engaging story of love and literary misadventure
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July 18, 2018‘The Fireflies of Autumn’: a bittersweet take on the Tuscan idyll
Moreno Giovannoni’s debut collection examines dislocation in a way rarely seen
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June 1, 2018‘Axiomatic’ by Maria Tumarkin
This collection of bracing essays interrogates how we view the past
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May 1, 2018‘A Sand Archive’ by Gregory Day
Day grasps landscape as an intimate living thing
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March 1, 2018‘The Only Story’ by Julian Barnes
The meticulous novelist takes on the oldest subject there is
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February 1, 2018‘Border Districts’ by Gerald Murnane
Writing that rewards patience
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December 1, 2017‘City of Crows’ by Chris Womersley
Picador; $32.99
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October 1, 2017‘The Choke’ by Sofie Laguna
Allen & Unwin; $32.99
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September 15, 2017What can’t be said in ‘Conversations with Friends’
The protagonists of Sally Rooney’s debut novel privilege irony over emotion
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September 1, 2017‘Home Fire’ by Kamila Shamsie
Shamsie’s seventh novel puts a modern spin on an Ancient Greek tragedy
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August 1, 2017‘Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker’ by Marie Darrieussecq
Trans. Penny Hueston; Text Publishing; $24.99
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July 4, 2017Lives of leisure
Robert Dessaix’s ‘The Pleasures of Leisure’ is a 21st-century defence of idleness