Books Read 2013

Benoît Peeters. Derrida: A Biography. tr. Andrew Brown.
J. M. Coetzee. Waiting for Barbarians.
Jacques Derrida. Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview. tr. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas.
J. M. Coetzee. Life and Times of Michael K.
Kate Zambreno. Green Girl.
Duncan Fallowell. How to Disappear.
David Shields. How Literature Saved My Life.
Amélie Nothomb. Life Form. tr. Alison Anderson.
Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes From Underground. tr. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Roberto Calasso. La Folie Baudelaire. tr. Alastair McEwen.
Martin Lings. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources.
Mahmoud Darwish. In the Presence of Absence. tr. Sinan Antoon.
Sven Lindqvist. Desert Divers. tr. Joan Tate.
Michel Foucault. Self Writing. tr. Robert Hurley and others.
Jane Bennett. The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics.
Jane Bennett. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things.
Kate Zambreno. Toilet Bowl: Some Notes on Why I Write.
J. M. Coetzee. Foe.
Pierre Hadot. Philosophy as a Way of Life. tr. Michael Chase.
Pierre Hadot. The Present Alone is Our Happiness. tr. Marc Djaballah.
Anne Carson. Plainwater.
Katherine Angel. Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell.
Alexander Nehamas. The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault.
Rachel Kushner. The Flamethrowers.
J. M. Coetzee. Age of Iron.
Reiner Stach. Kafka: The Years of Insight. tr. Shelley Frisch.
Olivia Laing. The Trip to Echo Spring.
J. M. Coetzee. The Master of Petersburg.
Philip Roth. Goodbye, Columbus.
Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon. Samuel Beckett’s Library.
James Knowlson. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett.
Anne Atik. How It Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett.
Oscar Wilde. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime.
Oscar Wilde. The Canterville Ghost.
Oscar Wilde. Poems in Prose.
Samuel Beckett. The Letters 1929–1940.
Harold Bloom. The Art of Reading Poetry.
Christopher Ricks. Beckett’s Dying Words.
Marlen Haushofer. The Loft.
Marlen Haushofer. The Wall.
Sven Lindqvist. The Myth of Wu Tao-Tao.
Sven Lindqvist. ‘Exterminate All the Brutes.’
Christa Wolf. Cassandra. tr. Jan van Heurck.
Pascale Casanova. Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution.
Christa Wolf. Conditions of a Narrative: Cassandra. tr. Jan van Heurck.
Christa Wolf. Medea. tr. John Cullen.
Homer. The Iliad. tr. Robert Fagles.
David Markson. Reader’s Block.
Charles Juliet. Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde. tr. Axel Nesme and Janey Tucker.
*Anne Carson. Plainwater.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom. A Brief History of Yes.
Pierre Hadot. Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision. tr. Michael Chase.
Clarice Lispector. Near to the Wild Heart. tr. Alison Entrekin.
Hermione Lee. Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography.
Hélène Cixous. Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing. tr. Susan Sellers and Sarah Cornell.
Christa Wolf. The Writer’s Dimension: Selected Essays. tr. Heike Schwarzbauer, Rick Takvorian, and Jan van Heurck.
Clarice Lispector. A Breath of Life. tr. Johnny Lorenz.
Mahmoud Darwish. A River Dies of Thirst: A Diary. tr. Catherine Cobham.
Alice Oswald. Memorial.
Marina Tsvetaeva. Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems. tr. Elaine Feinstein.
Ryszard Kapuściński. Travels with Herodotus. tr. Klara Glowczewska.