The Brooklyn Rail

Books

• The Rail's Best Books of 2017

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  Joseph Salvatore, Books Editor

• Ordinary Beast:
  NICOLE SEALEY with Alex Dueben

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• Vengeance: ZACHARY LAZAR with David Winner

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• Ultraluminous:
  KATHERINE FAW with Sean Madigan Hoen

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• My Cousin A.J.:
  A.J. JACOBS with Meg Kissel

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• Really Any Desert Creature: CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS with Allison Field Bell

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• Naomi Alderman’s The Power

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  By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Anelise Chen’s So Many Olympic Exertions

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  By James Duesterberg

• Gil Fagiani's Logos

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  By Kevin Carey

• Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest

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  By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Eyes Without a Face: Christine Hume and Jeff Clark’s Question Like A Face

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  By Chris Campanioni

• Claire Messud’s The Burning Girl

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  claire messud, the burning girl, yvonne c. garret, books, fiction

• The Lonely Scrivener:
  GAY TALESE with John Domini

• Time-Trails and Travelled Roads: GALE RENEE WALDEN with Rod Kessler

• Beyond Violence: Paul Yoon’s The Mountain

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  By Darley Stewart

• Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility

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  By Giovanni Vimercati

• ADAM BRAVER
  with David Winner

• Ta-Nehisi Coates’s
  We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

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  By Matt Grant

• Anthony DeCurtis's
  Lou Reed: A Life

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  By Ben Tripp

• Fathers and Daughters: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach

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  By Tom Deignan

• D. Foy’s Absolutely Golden

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  By Sean Gill

• On the Impossibility of Teaching Writing: Rainald Goetz

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  By Andrea Scrima

• Patrick McGrath's
  The Wardrobe Mistress

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  By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Structures in Service to Wonder: Ivy Pochoda's Wonder Valley

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  By Michael Natalie

• Karl Ove Knausgaard: Autumn and Winter

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  By David Varno

• CELESTE LIM, TERESE SVOBODA, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK with Gabriel Don

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  By Gabriel Don