Here’s 2010; not as many as in 2009, but this was supposed to be a year of slow reading. This excludes things read for work & a couple of things that I’m in the process of writing up elsewhere. I’ve put up a directory of links to what I wrote here; I wish I hadn’t called these write-ups “reviews” in the first place, as they’re not really intended to be that, but oh well.
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia
- Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre, The Silent Executioner
- Eleanor Antin, Historical Takes
- Dore Ashton, The New York School
- Nicholson Baker, U and I
- Honoré de Balzac, Treatise on Elegant Living
- W. N. P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man
- Donald Barthelme, Paradise
- Elif Batuman, The Possessed
- Jorge Luis Borges: Doctor Brodie’s Report; The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory
- Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies
- Jane Bowles & Denton Welch, A Stick of Green Candy
- Alan Burns, The Angry Brigade
- Joshua Cohen: Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; A Heaven of Others; Witz
- Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch, Ten Walks/Two Talks
- Stanley Crawford: Mayordomo; Petroleum Man; The River in Winter
- John Crowley: Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land; The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines
- Jeremy M. Davies, Rose Alley
- Sergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity
- Chris Diken, Some People
- Danielle Dutton, Attempts at a Life
- Geoff Dyer, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It
- Charles Macomb Flandrau, Viva Mexico!
- Thomas Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas?
- Henry Green: Concluding; Back; Caught; Doting; Nothing
- George & Weedon Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody
- Julian Jason Haladyn, Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés
- Kristin Hersh, Rat Girl
- Homer, The Odyssey; The Odyssey (trans. Samuel Butler)
- Lucy Ives, Anamnesis
- Gabriel Josipovici, Writing and the Body
- Ray Johnson & Bill Wilson, A Book about A Book about Death
- Franz Kafka, Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor
- Alan Levin, Love is like Park Avenue
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes tropiques
- Tan Lin, Seven Controlled Vocabularies
- Pierre Louÿs, The Young Girl’s Handbook of Good Manners
- Harry Mathews, The Journalist
- Sebastian Matthews, ed., From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson 1943–1967
- Joseph McElroy: Ship Rock: A Place; Preparations for Search; Night Soul and Other Stories
- James R. Mellow, A Charmed Circle
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- Stan Mir, Flight Patterns
- Leonard Mlodinow, Euclid’s Window
- Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History
- Francis Naumann, ed., Affectionately, Marcel: The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp
- Gérard de Nerval, Aurélia & other writings
- Klaus Ottmann, Yves Klein by Himself
- Georges Perec, An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
- Marcel Proust, The Prisoner
- Alexander Pushkin, The Tales of Belkin
- Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists
- Jules Renard, Nature Stories
- Éric Rohmer, Six Moral Tales
- Frederick Rolfe, The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
- Aram Saroyan, Coffee Coffee
- Wallace Shawn, Essays
- Ettie Stettheimer, Love Days
- Florine Stettheimer, Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto
- Alice B. Toklas, What Is Remembered
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Self-Portrait Abroad
- B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Frederic Tuten: The Adventures of Mao on the Long March; Tintin in the New World
- Jules Verne, The Green Ray
- Robert Walser, Answer to an Inquiry
- John Waters, Role Models
- Edmund White: Caracole; City Boy
- Monica Youn, Ignatz
- The Baffler: #4: Your Lifestyle Sucks!; #6: Dark Age; #7: The City in the Age of Information; #8: The Cultural Miracle; #9: An Injury To All; Vol. 2, No. 1: Margin Call