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  “The Children Act” by Ian McEwan:  As in many of Ian McEwan’s books this one, too, pivots around one single, central event and its rever...

  “Saving Beauty“ (“Die Errettung des Schönen“) by Byung-Chul Han: As the last book of a colorful variety of 58 books I read this year, whi...

  “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amos Towles: At the end of a year of avid reading I happened upon a book which in its tone if not its subject...

  “Intimacies“ by Katie Kitamura: A mysterious novel about a woman adrift in her own life and a new city. A story which constantly asks: W...

  “NIGHT. SLEEP. DEATH. The STARS.“ by Joyce Carol Oates: This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, awa...

 “ Bewilderment“ by Richard Powers: “Dad! Everything is going backwards.“  This frustrated outcry of a nine-year-old to his father is the ...

  “Willnot” by James Sallis: “Fish die belly upward and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.” This quote by André Gide might ...

  “Crossroads“ by Jonathan Franzen: In this excellent not to say, marvelous novel, a pleasure to read, Franzen stays true to his previous t...

“Lust, Caution" by Eileen Chang: In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong two people meet, for very different rea...

  “Doktor Faustus” by Thomas Mann: This is, among so many other things, a fictional biography of the composer Adrian Leverkühn, who devote...

  “Königsallee“ by Hans Pleschinski: It is the summer of 1954 and Thomas Mann, Nobel laureate, 80 years old, out from his exile in Switzer...

  “Filthy Animals” by Brandon Taylor: This collection of loosely linked short stories highlights momentary dramas of loosely connected you...

  “The Magician“ by Colm Tóibín: Soon into the very first pages of this book I knew I had successfully hit on another, so very rare,  book...