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BELOVED, John Steinbecks heartbreaking THE GRAPES OF WRATH, and George Orwells frighteningly relevant 1984. Pre-lockdown, I wrestled with Argentine writer Rodrigo Fresáns THE DREAMED PART (Open Letter Press, translated by Will Vanderhyden), the second in a trilogy. Like its predecessor, The Invented Part, this massive, challenging, nonlinear tome about an unnamed writer takes you on a freewheeling, literary joyride. Probably not surprisingly, much of my years reading concerned music. An ut...

Our Favorite International Reads of 2020 (and What We’ll Be Reading in 2021)   Editor This year, Im keeping my recommendations to the Southern Cone, perhaps out of the wistful recollection that as we face gray, blustery afternoons here in New York, warmer climes hold elsewhere. Daniel Tunnard s  Escapes(Unnamed Press), set in a world in which competitive Scrabble is a globally televised craze under the thumb of the Scrafia (yes, a Scrabble mafia), is an uproarious novel staked on the final ...