Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Some belated book reviews! Includes translated fiction, one of my favourite books of the year, and the most recent winner of the Goldsmiths Prize.

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Books mentioned:
📖 We Live Here Now, by C D Rose
📖 ti amo, by Hanne Ørstavik (tr. Martin Aitkin)
📖 On the Calculation of Volume III, by Solvej Balle (tr. Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell)
📖 The History of Sound, by Ben Shattuck
📖 A Simple Intervention, by Yael Inokai (tr. Marielle Sutherland)

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00:00 We Live Here Now
04:37 ti amo
07:09 On the Calculation of Volume III
11:49 The History of Sound
15:51 A Simple Intervention

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