Reading Roundup December 2021

You there, boy! What day is it!?

Unbelievably, it is very nearly Christmas Day again. I remember when it used to feel like forever between Christmases, now they seem to come around with alarming frequency. To try and push back against the ever-draining sands of time, here are a few un-Christmassy book recs:

At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis (2021 [2018], Pushkin Press)

2021 winner of the International Booker Prize and rightly so. At Night All ...