Here is a quick rundown of new books, reissues, and assorted other things that I especially enjoyed this year which also happened to be published this year. They aren’t in any particular order, though fiction is more toward the top and nonfiction toward the bottom. Imre Kertesz’ Fiasco stands out as perhaps the most significant to me of the lot.
I’m using Amazon integration not because of any strong desire to do so, but because I could not find another tool that allowed me to list a collection easily and had access to the covers and data for most of the books on the list. I’m not making any affiliate money whatsoever from this. The links are there for convenience only.
Even still, there are missing books. One is Wendy Walker’s mysterious, uncanny My Man and Other Critical Fictions.
Correr el tupido velo
Pilar Donoso
Alfaguara
Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy
The Cowherds
Oxford University Press
On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderot’s Aesthetic Thought
Denis Diderot
Springer
Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism
Paul Forster
Cambridge University Press
Shakespeare Studies Today: Romanticism Lost
Edward Pechter
Palgrave Macmillan
Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella: A Bilingual Edition
Tommaso Campanella
University of Chicago Press
After Godel: Platonism and Rationalism in Mathematics and Logic
Richard Tieszen
Oxford University Press
Edmund Husserl’s Freiburg Years: 1916-1938 (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics)
J. N. Mohanty
Yale University Press
A History of Renaissance Rhetoric, 1380-1620 (Oxford-Warburg Studies)
Peter Mack
Oxford University Press
The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized
Owen Flanagan
A Bradford Book
Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790
Jonathan Israel
Oxford University Press
Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion
Jeanne Fahnestock
Oxford University Press
Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
Ralph Ellison
Modern Library
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956
Samuel Beckett
Cambridge University Press
Age of Fracture
Daniel T. Rodgers
Belknap Press
Gender City
Lisa Samuels
Shearsman Books
Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry
Louis Zukofsky
New Directions
The Guinea Pigs
Ludvík Vaculík
Open Letter
Ice Trilogy (New York Review Books Classics)
Vladimir Sorokin
NYRB Classics
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Barbara Comyns
Dorothy, a publishing project
Black Paths
David B.
SelfMadeHero
The Armed Garden And Other Stories
David B.
Fantagraphics Books
The Lizard’s Tale: A Novel
José Donoso
Northwestern University Press
Thesee universel
Editions Vagabonde
AnimalInside (The Cahiers)
László Krasznahorkai
New Directions
Cedilla
Adam Mars-Jones
Faber & Faber
War Diary (The German List)
Ingeborg Bachmann
Seagull Books
Fiasco
Imre Kertész
Melville House
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