This Week's Acquisitions
- Kenzaburo Oe, Somersault, trans. Philip Gabriel (Grove, 2003). A new religion struggles to reemerge after it fell apart years before. (UCLA)
- Chris Adrian, The Great Night (Picador, 2011). A Midsummer Night's Dream in twenty-first century San Francisco. (Barnes & Noble)
- Adam Braver, Misfit (Tin House, 2012). Novel about Marilyn Monroe just before her death. (Barnes & Noble)
- Alain Finkielkraut, The Imaginary Jew, trans. Kevin O'Neill and David Suchoff (Nebraska, 1994). Reflections on the nature of both Jewish identity and attitudes to Jews in the twentieth century. (UCLA)