# Trema
> Books that make small worlds feel enormous—often in translation, often slim. Recommended by Daniël van der Winden.
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## Posts
- [The Silver Book](https://www.trema.website/olivia-laing-the-silver-book.md) - Olivia Laing’s second novel apprentices an English boy to a magician of Italian cinema, in the months leading up to the events of November 1975.
- [Frog and Other Essays](https://www.trema.website/anne-fadiman-frog.md) - A frog in the freezer, an immortal printer, and a new Yiddish word for Zoom fatigue: on Anne Fadiman’s latest collection.
- [The Wild Birds](https://www.trema.website/wendell-berry-the-wild-birds.md) - Six interlinked stories, warm and unhurried, from a fictional Kentucky town.
- [Greyhound](https://www.trema.website/joanna-pocock-greyhound.md) - Joanna Pocock retraces a Greyhound journey across America
- [The Memory Police](https://www.trema.website/yoko-ogawa-the-memory-police.md) - A tale about an island where vanishing is ordinary, and remembering is dangerous.
- [Big Kiss, Bye-Bye](https://www.trema.website/claire-louise-bennett-big-kiss-bye-bye.md) - Bennett’s writing about love and memory catches you mid-air.
- [Any Person Is the Only Self](https://www.trema.website/elisa-gabbert-any-person-is-the-only-self.md) - A generous collection of essays on reading, writing, and the quiet pleasures of literary life.
- [War and Turpentine](https://www.trema.website/stefan-hertmans-war-and-turpentine.md) - Spanning multiple war-ridden decades of the 20th century, Hertmans’ reconstruction of his grandfather's life is lovingly layered.
- [Open City](https://www.trema.website/teju-cole-open-city.md) - Open City is a novel that reads like a great essay might, pulling in references to art, music, literature and history, and building a collage that invites further discovery beyond its pages.
- [Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha](https://www.trema.website/roddy-doyle-paddy-clarke-ha-ha-ha.md) - Humour and heartbreak trade blows against a backdrop of a family’s quiet collapse.
- [Burning The Days](https://www.trema.website/james-salter-burning-the-days.md) - Recounting his years as a fighter pilot and writer, Salter’s nostalgic and melancholic memoir drips with a Don Draper-esque masculinity.
- [It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over](https://www.trema.website/anne-de-marcken-it-lasts-forever-and-then-its-over-2024.md) - I finished reading this book more than a week ago and it keeps running loops inside my mind, its eyes glazed over, its arms outstretched before it.
- [Collected Works](https://www.trema.website/the-collected-works-of-jo-ann-beard-2023.md) - “My first love was poetry, my second love was fiction and my third and lasting love was the essay.”
- [The Alternatives](https://www.trema.website/caoilinn-hughes-the-alternatives.md) - Four sisters, three PhDs, and a family quietly coming apart.
- [Nuclear War: A Scenario](https://www.trema.website/annie-jacobsen-nuclear-war-a-scenario.md) - A cinematic glimpse at nuclear war that hurtles forward without ever losing sight of the people in its path.
- [The Repeat Room](https://www.trema.website/jesse-ball-the-repeat-room.md) - In this society of interchangeable robes, telescreens and plastic trays, the machinery of state violence is described with frightening precision.
- [Intervals](https://www.trema.website/marianne-brooker-intervals.md) - Her mother chose to die and Marianne Brooker documented the process, surreal and mundane as may be, into a perfectly composed essay.
- [The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast](https://www.trema.website/sh-fernando-jr-the-chronicles-of-doom.md) - A singular, mischievous and meticulous artist, carefully unpacked.
- [Orbital](https://www.trema.website/samantha-harvey-orbital-2023.md) - Six astronauts orbit Earth sixteen times in twenty-four hours. Harvey makes you feel every pass.
- [Pond](https://www.trema.website/claire-louise-bennett-pond.md) - “In solitude, you don’t need to make an impression on the world, so the world has some opportunity to make an impression on you.”
- [All Fours](https://www.trema.website/miranda-july-all-fours.md) - A novel bursting with desire that mostly goes unconsumed; a midlife crisis in a motel room.
- [Every Man for Himself and God Against All](https://www.trema.website/werner-herzog-every-man-for-himself-and-god-against-all.md) - Herzog has lived many lives and exudes an endless curiosity—as if, as a child, he fell into a Bavarian creek awash with potion and clambered out anew, like some German Obelix.
- [The New York Trilogy](https://www.trema.website/paul-auster-the-new-york-trilogy-1987.md) - Auster at his strangest in three unexpected detective novels.
- [The First Bad Man](https://www.trema.website/miranda-july-the-first-bad-man.md) - Nobody in their right mind would do the things Cheryl Glickman does, and nobody can write them down like July can.
- [Prophet Song](https://www.trema.website/paul-lynch-prophet-song.md) - Relentless and unforgiving; a whirlwind of a novel about a country on the brink of totalitarianism.
- [The Living Mountain](https://www.trema.website/nan-shepherd-the-living-mountain.md) - Written in 1944, shelved for thirty years, and still revealing new vistas.
- [Cheri](https://www.trema.website/jo-ann-beard-cheri-2023.md) - An elegant, devastating novella about the march towards a certain death—one that Beard, somehow, makes bearable.
- [August Blue](https://www.trema.website/deborah-levy-august-blue.md) - A concert pianist who walked off stage in Vienna and spent the rest of the novel trying to figure out who she is.
- [The Year of Magical Thinking](https://www.trema.website/joan-didion-the-year-of-magical-thinking.md) - Didion on grief: a year retraced, accompanied by a striking sense of calm.
- [Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life](https://www.trema.website/anne-lamott-bird-by-bird.md) - “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”
- [Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead](https://www.trema.website/olga-tokarczuk-drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead.md) - An eerie murder mystery, dark feminist comedy, and a refreshing take on vegetarianism—Tokarczuk does all three at once.
- [Hiroshima](https://www.trema.website/john-hersey-hiroshima.md) - Six survivors, one journalist, and the most important piece of war reporting ever published.
- [Faith, Hope and Carnage](https://www.trema.website/cave-ohagan-faith-hope-carnage.md) - Forty hours of conversation with Nick Cave—his first proper interview in years, generous and articulate.
- [The Dry Heart](https://www.trema.website/natalia-ginzburg-the-dry-heart.md) - A compact book, brilliantly subdued in its anger.
- [All The Lovers In The Night](https://www.trema.website/mieko-kawakami-all-the-lovers.md) - Fuyuko prefers the company of fictional characters to real people. Kawakami makes that feel like the most natural thing in the world.
- [An Immense World](https://www.trema.website/ed-yong-an-immense-world.md) - Ed Yong on the senses of the animal kingdom: catfish that taste with their skin, beetles that mate as forests burn. Our world, it turns out, is a flabbergasting place.
- [Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes](https://www.trema.website/claire-wilcox-patch-work.md) - The V&A's curator of fashion examines the clothes that shaped her life—each essay handled like an object from the storeroom, with gloved fingers.
- [Grey Bees](https://www.trema.website/andrey-kurkov-grey-bees.md) - One beekeeper, two streets, and a village caught between two armies—Kurkov finds warmth in the smallest of places.

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