What are you currently reading?

[Karl Henning]

How Milwaukee flipped the script after fatal police shooting

[Brian]

Recently on a nonfiction streak. Just finished "Food in History" by Reay Tannahill, an excellent single-volume treatment of exactly what the title says. Now midway through "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer, a history of the political contributions and leanings of American oligarchs like the Koch brothers and Richard Mellon Scaife.

Next: "Memories," the Russian writer Teffi's memoir of her escape from the revolution in 1917. Then, finally, some fiction again!

[Karl Henning]

Recently on a nonfiction streak.

I've been sampling each of three volumes of a Liszt bio.  May likely spring for the ebooks.

[Drasko]

William Faulkner - The Hamlet (Dugo, Vrelo Leto (The Long, Hot Summer) in Serbian translation)

[André]

Please let us know what you thought of it. Faulkner is one of my literary heroes (Light in August, Sound and the Fury, Intruder int he Dust, Sartoris...).

[Drasko]

Please let us know what you thought of it. Faulkner is one of my literary heroes (Light in August, Sound and the Fury, Intruder int he Dust, Sartoris...).

Will do.
I love Faulkner. He is most likely my favorite American writer, though Flannery O'Connor of lately is giving him a run for his money. I've read pretty much all of his major works: August, Fury, Absalom, As I lay Dying (probably a favorite), Sartoris, Sanctuary, Unvanquished, Wild Palms ...
Snopes Trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion) is more or less the last large body of work of his that I haven't read, apart of some standalone pieces that don't seem that interesting (to me) like A Fable, The Reivers and some early novels. 

[Mister Sharpe]

For the third time, Adam's Diary, an extraordinary novel by Norwegian author Knut Faldbakken.  Clever, devastating and highly recommended.

[andolink]

Just started this behemoth and it's already fascinating:

[Mister Sharpe]

Rather than begin a thread devoted to it, I thought I'd ask here:  has anyone read or heard of Edward Rothstein's comparison of music and maths, Emblems of Mind: the Inner Life of Music and Mathematics (1995).  Wondering how revelatory and readable it might be.

[Karl Henning]

Rather than begin a thread devoted to it, I thought I'd ask here:  has anyone read or heard of Edward Rothstein's comparison of music and maths, Emblems of Mind: the Inner Life of Music and Mathematics (1995).  Wondering how revelatory and readable it might be.

I don't know. Curious now, myself.

[ludwigii]

AA.VV. (Enzo Restagno, Alexander Ivashkin, Elizabeth Wilson)

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EDT (Torino)

[Brian]

Books I'm bringing on my vacation:

- The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism, by Kristin Dombek
- Stoner, by John Williams
- Flashman, by George Macdonald Fraser
- Dear Life, by Alice Munro

[Florestan]

Finished recently:



(the Spanish translation of Michel Houellebecq's Submission)

Currently reading:



F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night (Romanian translation)

[Jaakko Keskinen]

[Christo]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tien-journalistieke-idealen-Johan-Snel/dp/908953993X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472680394&sr=8-1&keywords=Johan+Snel

[NikF]

Manon Lescaut.

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[André]

Finished recently:



(the Spanish translation of Michel Houellebecq's Submission)

For a moment I thought this was the romanian translation. Isn't there one ? Houellebecq is an extremely trendy and timely read author these days.

[Parsifal]

William Faulkner - The Hamlet (Dugo, Vrelo Leto (The Long, Hot Summer) in Serbian translation)

I wonder what Faulkner is like in Serbian translation. So much in Faulkner is in the reproduction of colloquial speech of different ethnic groups.

[Florestan]

For a moment I thought this was the romanian translation. Isn't there one ?

Not yet.

The novel is good, but rather naive --- for instance, it implies that the Sorbonne Islamic University would still offer courses on Huysmans and Peguy... 

It depicts extremely well the irresponsibility and stupidity of a certain type of French intellectuals, who talk about France being turned into an islamic state, and Sorbonne into an islamic university, as if it were the most natural and benign phenomenon in the world.

[SimonNZ]

Conversations between Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa on classical music and recordings.