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February 5, 2023February 2, 2023 bookmunch

“Doesn’t quite get there” – I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins

February 4, 2023February 2, 2023 bookmunch

“When it was good, it was very good” – The Fugitives by Jamal Mahjoub

February 3, 2023January 29, 2023 bookmunch

“Not an easy read” – The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman

February 2, 2023January 29, 2023 bookmunch

“Engenders a sort of temporal vertigo” – Notes from Deep Time by Helen Gordon

February 1, 2023January 31, 2023 bookmunch

“Not a perfect read” – The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces by Stephan Eicke

January 31, 2023January 29, 2023 bookmunch

“A rare gem” – River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer

January 30, 2023January 28, 2023 bookmunch

“Out of time” – The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish

January 27, 2023January 31, 2023 bookmunch

“A comedic postcard from the edge” – Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

January 26, 2023January 22, 2023 bookmunch

“Interesting and important” – Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster (photos Spencer Ostrander)

January 25, 2023January 22, 2023 bookmunch

“It’s fresh” – Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

January 24, 2023January 22, 2023 bookmunch

“Carefully layered” – Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell

January 23, 2023January 22, 2023 bookmunch

“Works in the same way as Michael Haneke’s film The White Ribbon” – Irmina by Barbara Yelin

January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 bookmunch

“Not a light read, but it’s a worthwhile one” – Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra

January 19, 2023January 18, 2023 bookmunch

“You might find yourself cheering” – Muppets in Moscow by Natasha Lance Rogoff

January 18, 2023January 16, 2023 bookmunch

“Red in tooth and claw” – The Tangle by Justin Robertson

January 17, 2023January 16, 2023 bookmunch

“Nothing better can be hoped for” – T H White: A Biography by Sylvia Townsend Warner

January 16, 2023January 15, 2023 bookmunch

White Riot by Joe Thomas

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 bookmunch

“Linguistically exuberant” – Avalon by Nell Zink

January 12, 2023 bookmunch

“Ellis is back” – The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

January 11, 2023January 8, 2023 bookmunch

“Chockful of invention” – Your Wish is My Command by Deena Mohamed

January 10, 2023January 8, 2023 bookmunch

“Explores grand human concerns” – To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

January 9, 2023January 8, 2023 bookmunch

“Arresting and unusual” – W the Whore by Anke Feuchtenberger and Katrin De Vries (trans. Mark Nevins)

January 6, 2023January 1, 2023 bookmunch

“Deliberately pedestrian” – Tides by Sara Freeman

January 5, 2023January 1, 2023 bookmunch

“A special book for difficult times” – The Reactor by Nick Blackburn

January 4, 2023January 1, 2023 bookmunch

“Immensely powerful” – The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

January 3, 2023January 1, 2023 bookmunch

“Sense and nonsense were meat and drink” – Magritte, A Life by Alex Danchev

December 23, 2022December 22, 2022 bookmunch

Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2023 – Part 5

December 22, 2022December 19, 2022 bookmunch

Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2023 – Part 4

December 21, 2022December 18, 2022 bookmunch

Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2023 – Part 3

December 20, 2022December 18, 2022 bookmunch

Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2023 – Part 2

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