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Everything is Romantic
On Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" (translated by Burton Pike)
Nov 6 • 
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Recommendations Thread: November 2025
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Nov 1 • 
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October 2025

Actually Pretty Good: The Wax Child
On Olga Ravn's "The Wax Child" (translated by Martin Aitken)
Oct 30 • 
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The Past Is Never Dead, It's Not Even Past
On W.G. Sebald's "On the Natural History of Destruction"
Oct 23 • 
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A Shape As Yet Untaken
On Thomas Pynchon's "Shadow Ticket"
Oct 16 • 
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The Continuing Adventures of the Most French Man Who Ever Lived
On Louis-Ferdinand Céline's "Journey to the End of the Night" (translated by Ralph Manheim)
Oct 9 • 
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Recommendations Thread: October 2025
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Oct 7 • 
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Actually Pretty Good: Mice 1961
On Stacey Levine's novel of delirious anticlimax
Oct 2 • 
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September 2025

WW1 for Pseuds
On Daniel Kraus's "Angel Down"
Sep 25 • 
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This Woman's Work
On Doireann Ní Ghríofa's "A Ghost in the Throat"
Sep 18 • 
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Ham Sandwich Novel
On Michelle Huneven's "Bug Hollow"
Sep 12 • 
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Rebel Without A Clue
On David Gates's "Jernigan"
Sep 4 • 
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