This Week's Acquisitions

(More than one this time! Er, two.)

• Helmut Krausser, Eros, trans. Mike Mitchell (Europa, 2008).  Man reminisces about a peculiar fixation.  (Borders)
• Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky (Penguin, 1993).  Reprint of Cahan's novel about a young Jewish immigrant working his way through early twentieth-century NYC.  (UC Irvine Bookstore)