The New Republic

Before 2013 begins, catch up on the best of 2012. From now until the New Year, we will be re-posting some of The New Republic’s most thought-provoking pieces of the year. Enjoy. Zona By Geoff Dyer (Pantheon, 228 pp., $24)   READ MORE >>

The Sense of an Ending By Julian Barnes (Knopf, 163 pp., $23.95) READ MORE >>

The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life By Harold Bloom (Yale University Press, 357 pp., $32.50) READ MORE >>

Nemesis By Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 280 pp., $26)  I. READ MORE >>

The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis (Knopf, 384 pp., $26.95) READ MORE >>

The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis (Knopf, 384 pp., $26.95)   READ MORE >>

The Original of Laura By Vladimir Nabokov Edited by Dmitri Nabokov (Knopf, 304 pp., $35)   READ MORE >>

Chronic City By Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday, 432 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>

2666 By Roberto Bolano Translated by Natasha Wimmer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 912 pp., $30) READ MORE >>

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad By John Stape (Pantheon, 369 pp., $30) READ MORE >>