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Thread of Wonder, the next 5000 posts: science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction 2021 and beyond [Started by Scheming politicians are captivating, and it hurts (ledge) in April 2021, last updated yesterday by Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs)] 28 new answers
proust thread [Started by ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp) in September 2014, last updated yesterday by xyzzzz__] 3 new answers
I'm in Love With Books and I Feel Fine! What Are You Reading in Autumn 2023? [Started by more difficult than I look (Aimless) in September 2023, last updated yesterday by dow] 26 new answers
little authorial signatures (the littler the better) [Started by Boris Yitsbin (wins) in September 2023, last updated yesterday by blatherskite] 28 new answers

Last on Sunday, 24 September 2023 20:10

Sports Books [Started by MikeyG (MikeyG) in January 2004, last updated four days ago by clemenza] 3 new answers

Last on Saturday, 23 September 2023 23:35

Everything is Whirling and Twirling! What Are You Reading this Summer 2023? [Started by more difficult than I look (Aimless) in June 2023, last updated five days ago by Dan S] 7 new answers

Last on Friday, 22 September 2023 12:30

London ILB - FAP? [Started by accentmonkey (accentmonkey) in May 2004, last updated six days ago by Daniel_Rf]

Last on Wednesday, 20 September 2023 20:52

Franzen: s/d [Started by bookdwarf (bookdwarf) in June 2004, last updated one week ago by 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan)]

Last on Tuesday, 19 September 2023 11:12

Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately? [Started by Aimless in March 2007, last updated one week ago by Stevo] 3 new answers

Last on Monday, 18 September 2023 18:23

Search/Destroy Every Nobel Prize Winner For Literature [Started by scott seward in October 2016, last updated one week ago by xyzzzz__] 1 new answer
what was the last 'classic book' you got and were knocked out by? [Started by koogs in July 2020, last updated one week ago by Chuck_Tatum]

Last on Thursday, 14 September 2023 09:53

Reading Jonathan Lethem ...? [Started by I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura) in January 2004, last updated two weeks ago by the pinefox]

Last on Wednesday, 13 September 2023 21:10

Rolling Contemporary Literary Fiction [Started by ksh in July 2010, last updated two weeks ago by xyzzzz__] 7 new answers

Last on Monday, 11 September 2023 16:00

Taking Sides: the TLS v. the LRB [Started by DV (dirtyvicar) in May 2004, last updated two weeks ago by the pinefox] 1 new answer

Last on Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:49

Which Translators do you Trust? [Started by xyzzzz__ in September 2009, last updated two weeks ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Saturday, 9 September 2023 23:19

what poetry are you reading [Started by mustread guy (schlump) in December 2013, last updated two weeks ago by dow]

Last on Tuesday, 5 September 2023 08:35

two photos of virginia woolf. [Started by tom west (thomp) in June 2004, last updated three weeks ago by Monthly Python (Tom D.)]
NYRB Publishing [Started by Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White) in July 2009, last updated three weeks ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Monday, 4 September 2023 10:29

ILB *By The Book* NYT-Style [Started by scott seward in July 2023, last updated three weeks ago by Piedie Gimbel]

Last on Friday, 1 September 2023 19:27

literary twitter feeds good and bad [Started by mark s in August 2016, last updated three weeks ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Monday, 28 August 2023 11:09

cat person [Started by |||||||| in December 2017, last updated one month ago by Kate (rushomancy)]

Last on Saturday, 26 August 2023 23:20

Jason Starr/Ken Bruen [Started by James Redd and the Blecchs in October 2007, last updated one month ago by omar little]

Last on Monday, 21 August 2023 21:55

The Bible, revisited [Started by Ismael Klata in March 2009, last updated one month ago by hrep (H.P)]
recommend a translation [Started by John (jdahlem) in November 2004, last updated one month ago by xyzzzz__]
What are the fifty greatest travel books ever written? [Started by MikeyG (MikeyG) in February 2004, last updated one month ago by no lime tangier]

Last on Monday, 14 August 2023 08:33

Where is the best place to find decent literary criticism, outside of a university library? [Started by Matt DC (Matt DC) in December 2003, last updated one month ago by the pinefox]

Last on Friday, 11 August 2023 00:24

an urgent request for ann - re: denis johnson. [Started by griffin doome in December 2003, last updated one month ago by out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve)]

Last on Wednesday, 9 August 2023 13:09

Texts within texts. [Started by ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak) in October 2008, last updated one month ago by corrs unplugged]

Last on Wednesday, 2 August 2023 03:07

Labyrinhts (1962) - Jorge Luis Borges POLL [Started by Treeship in March 2014, last updated one month ago by dow] POLL results

Last on Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:16

Reading Ulysses [Started by Adrian Marley in May 2004, last updated one month ago by the late great]

Last on Monday, 31 July 2023 13:11

Novelists No One Reads Anymore [Started by Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs) in September 2022, last updated one month ago by bulb after bulb]

Last on Thursday, 27 July 2023 21:41

Michael Silverblatt/KCRW Bookworm [Started by Piedie Gimbel in July 2023, last updated two months ago by jmm]

Last on Wednesday, 26 July 2023 05:08

DSKY-DSKY Him Sad: Official ILB Thread For The Heroic Age of Manned Spaceflight [Started by Give 'Em Enough Rope Mother (James Redd and the Blecchs) in June 2015, last updated two months ago by Elvis Telecom]

Last on Sunday, 23 July 2023 14:38

$900 Grandmothers aka Out Of Print Book Price Sticker Shock: Post Yr Links Here [Started by You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs) in April 2015, last updated two months ago by Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs)]

Last on Friday, 21 July 2023 22:12

Blistering Reviews [Started by I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura) in August 2006, last updated two months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Tuesday, 18 July 2023 04:43

Lydia Davis [Started by jed_ in February 2012, last updated two months ago by mookieproof]

Last on Thursday, 13 July 2023 19:53

Reading Books When You Are Little (A Kundera Thread) [Started by Sterling Clover (s_clover) in July 2005, last updated two months ago by the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)]

Last on Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:04

Samuel Delany [Started by Julio Desouza (jdesouza) in January 2004, last updated two months ago by Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes)]
ILX Book Club - Ezra Pound: The Cantos [Started by xyzzzz__ in May 2012, last updated two months ago by orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague)]

Last on Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:11

Percy Bysshe Shelley [Started by Treeship in September 2014, last updated three months ago by Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.)]
War and Peace 2012 [Started by The New Dirty Vicar in January 2012, last updated three months ago by Dan S]

Last on Wednesday, 21 June 2023 22:46

A halo of warmth in the darkness of the year: what are you reading spring 2023? [Started by limb tins & cum (gyac) in March 2023, last updated three months ago by more difficult than I look (Aimless)]

Last on Tuesday, 20 June 2023 05:10

Are there any Cormac McCarthy fans out there? [Started by McDowell Crook in March 2004, last updated three months ago by Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs)]

Last on Monday, 19 June 2023 10:43

S/D: magic realism [Started by jordache in May 2004, last updated three months ago by xyzzzz__]

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Ian McEwan [Started by Dr Morbius in November 2007, last updated three months ago by the pinefox]

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Cornel West [Started by djdee2005 in August 2004, last updated three months ago by Daniel_Rf]

Last on Wednesday, 14 June 2023 12:41

Donald Barthelme's Syllabus [Started by scott seward (scott seward) in March 2004, last updated three months ago by Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins)]

Last on Monday, 12 June 2023 21:55

Les lettres, Monsieur – A Pierre Michon Thread [Started by Fizzles in January 2023, last updated three months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Tuesday, 6 June 2023 12:31

Elena Ferrante - The Neapolitan Novels [Started by xyzzzz__ in October 2014, last updated three months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:04

Alan Hollinghurst C/D S&D [Started by jed_ in August 2012, last updated three months ago by Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski)]

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Book Reviews? LRB vs the failing New York Review of Books vs ... ? [Started by Federico Boswarlos in September 2018, last updated four months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Monday, 8 May 2023 22:16

best faust translation [Started by tom cleveland (tom cleveland) in February 2005, last updated four months ago by xyzzzz__]
William Gaddis, c/d? [Started by n/a (Nick A.) in October 2005, last updated four months ago by Chris L]

Last on Thursday, 4 May 2023 21:07

Novels, short and sweet [Started by David Elinsky (David Elinsky) in June 2004, last updated four months ago by Daniel_Rf]

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Hermann Hesse [Started by fcussen (Burger) in April 2005, last updated four months ago by calstars]

Last on Wednesday, 26 April 2023 13:20

Sam Lipsyte [Started by freakshore in August 2005, last updated five months ago by na (NA)]
Herman Melville-The Confidence Man [Started by Local Garda in July 2009, last updated five months ago by the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)]

Last on Monday, 24 April 2023 10:32

Housekeeping~Marilynne Robinson [Started by Beth Natale (Beth N) in June 2006, last updated five months ago by imago]

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Kazuo Ishiguro [Started by Alice Blanding in November 2004, last updated five months ago by dow]

Last on Tuesday, 11 April 2023 06:52

At 10:35 on an early summer's morning, John Lanchester sat down at his study desk, switched on his new Dell computer, opened up the word processing programme that the computer had come with and began [Started by Fizzles in March 2012, last updated five months ago by Tracer Hand]

Last on Sunday, 2 April 2023 13:15

Sophie Mackintosh - Cursed Bread & her other works [Started by here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac) in January 2023, last updated five months ago by limb tins & cum (gyac)]

Last on Friday, 24 March 2023 16:04

Please use the receptacle provided: What are you reading as 2023 begins? [Started by more difficult than I look (Aimless) in December 2022, last updated six months ago by more difficult than I look (Aimless)]

Last on Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:40

Dalkey Archive Press [Started by Ken L (Ken L) in November 2004, last updated six months ago by xyzzzz__]
Perry Anderson [Started by the pinefox in July 2018, last updated six months ago by the pinefox]

Last on Sunday, 19 March 2023 19:15

Redshifted In Memphis: Thread for a discussion of books about science or its history aimed at a general audience but not playing to the crowd [Started by Bo Diddley Is A Threadkiller (James Redd and the Blecchs) in May 2014, last updated six months ago by alimosina]

Last on Thursday, 16 March 2023 17:00

sheila heti and the novel 'how should a person be?' [Started by Lamp in June 2012, last updated six months ago by niall horanburger (cryptosicko)]

Last on Monday, 13 March 2023 18:46

The Sebald Fiction Poll [Started by Zeno in April 2009, last updated six months ago by the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin)] POLL results

Last on Monday, 6 March 2023 17:03

This Be The Pocket Universe: Post Here When You Realize Or Are Reminded That An SF Title Is From The Canon Of English Poetry [Started by Archaic Buster Poindexter, Live At The Apollo (James Redd and the Blecchs) in July 2015, last updated six months ago by Lily Dale]

Last on Sunday, 5 March 2023 10:29

ILX Book Club - Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad [Started by xyzzzz__ in May 2011, last updated six months ago by the pinefox]

Last on Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:09

new pynchon new pynchon new pynchon [Started by tom west (thomp) in July 2006, last updated six months ago by alimosina]

Last on Tuesday, 28 February 2023 22:19

so i started gravity's rainbow the other day [Started by John (jdahlem) in January 2005, last updated seven months ago by Maggot Bairn (Tom D.)]
Who will be the next American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature? [Started by Mark Klobas in May 2005, last updated seven months ago by satori enabler (Noodle Vague)]
top100- stock plot devices for important works of literature [Started by Doctor Casino in December 2009, last updated seven months ago by The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse)]

Last on Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:45

Tell Me About John Crowley [Started by MsLaura in January 2008, last updated seven months ago by ledge]

Last on Tuesday, 21 February 2023 16:00

Martin Amis: Where do I start? [Started by mike h. (mike h.) in March 2005, last updated seven months ago by Chuck_Tatum]
Beginning Pynchon's V. [Started by eleni (eleni) in March 2004, last updated seven months ago by the pinefox]

Last on Monday, 13 February 2023 07:58

Like the 20th Century Never Happened [Started by xyzzzz__ in November 2022, last updated seven months ago by xyzzzz__] POLL results

Last on Tuesday, 7 February 2023 13:59

Moby Dick [Started by Jaq (Jaq) in November 2005, last updated seven months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Tuesday, 31 January 2023 12:25

ILB Writing Club [Started by imago in October 2017, last updated seven months ago by xyzzzz__]

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DUNE: c/d [Started by vahid (vahid) in January 2004, last updated seven months ago by nashwan]

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Demented Book Covers [Started by James Morrison in February 2008, last updated eight months ago by koogs]

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Addiction Memoirs [Started by calstars in December 2022, last updated eight months ago by dow]

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James Kelman [Started by 57 7th (calstars) in February 2005, last updated eight months ago by verhexen]

Last on Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:53

'Tis the Season = M.R. James [Started by http://uktv.co.uk/ can fuck right off imo (Noodle Vague) in November 2009, last updated eight months ago by Kieth Encounter (Noodle Vague)]

Last on Sunday, 15 January 2023 16:29

What are your favorite recently published short stories? [Started by Robomonkey (patronus) in January 2004, last updated eight months ago by corrs unplugged]

Last on Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:08

What did you read in 2022? [Started by more difficult than I look (Aimless) in December 2022, last updated eight months ago by Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs)]

Last on Wednesday, 4 January 2023 09:05

Ursula Le Guin -- S/D, etc. [Started by spittle (spittle) in December 2003, last updated eight months ago by ledge]

Last on Saturday, 31 December 2022 13:29

The Whole New Yorker Raymond Carver Thing [Started by scott seward in December 2007, last updated eight months ago by Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)]
The (S)word in the Autumn Stone: What Are You Reading, Fall 2022? [Started by dow in September 2022, last updated eight months ago by the pinefox]

Last on Monday, 19 December 2022 17:20

montaigne and florio [Started by kenchen in December 2005, last updated nine months ago by devvvine]

Last on Saturday, 10 December 2022 19:53

Vernon Joynson [Started by Stevolende in September 2017, last updated nine months ago by Stevolende]
ILB, How Do You Read Poetry? [Started by J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi) in December 2022, last updated nine months ago by dow]

Last on Monday, 5 December 2022 19:27

E. M. Forster - C or D, s&d, etc. [Started by Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf) in October 2005, last updated nine months ago by Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)]
Prose works by Playwrights [Started by xyzzzz__ in November 2010, last updated nine months ago by Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.)]

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Prose works by poets [Started by xyzzzz__ in August 2009, last updated nine months ago by xyzzzz__]

Last on Sunday, 27 November 2022 21:05

Literary Masterpieces You've Often Attempted, But Never Finished [Started by more difficult than I look (Aimless) in September 2022, last updated ten months ago by dow]

Last on Saturday, 26 November 2022 01:55

Hans Magnus Enzensberger. RIP, HME. [Started by Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs) in November 2022, last updated ten months ago by Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs)]

Last on Monday, 14 November 2022 17:13

Borges translation? [Started by Moti Bahat in October 2004, last updated ten months ago by dow]

Last on Friday, 11 November 2022 16:19

Book Group: Helen DeWitt's "The Last Samurai" - Discussion Thread [Started by jed_ in September 2010, last updated ten months ago by na (NA)]
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