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The Review of Contemporary Fiction

The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization. The Review's aesthetic focus has been called many things-postmodern, experimental, avant-garde, metafictional, subversive-but in bringing this aesthetic to a wider audience it also seeks to expose the artificial barriers that exist between and within cultures. To this end the Review has a special affinity for the works of foreign writers who may otherwise go unread in the United States, as well as American writers whose work has gone unchampioned in their own country. An extensive book review section also covers recent works of innovative writing. Above all, the Review of Contemporary Fiction attempts to expand readers' notions of what fiction is and what it can do.

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Our Back Issues:

Vol. XXIX, #3 : Dalkey Archive Annual 3

Vol. XXIX, #2 : Herman Melville's ; or The Whale

Vol. XXIX, #1 : Georges Perec

Vol. XXVIII, #3 : New Writing on Writing

Vol. XXVIII, #2 : Dalkey Archive Annual 2

Vol. XXVIII, #1 : New Catalan Fiction

Vol. XXVII, #3 : New Australian Fiction

Vol. XXVII, #2 : Special Fiction Issue: Juan Emar

Vol. XXVII, #1 : Dalkey Archive Annual 1

Vol. XXVI, #3 : The Cuban Fiction Issue

Vol. XXVI, #2 : William Eastlake / Julieta Campos / Jane Bowles

Vol. XXVI, #1 : Steven Millhauser

Vol. XXV, #3 : Flann O’Brien / Guy Davenport / Aldous Huxley

Vol. XXV, #2 : William H. Gass / Robert Lowry / Ross Feld

Vol. XXV, #1 : Gert Jonke / Kazuo Ishiguro / Emily Holmes Coleman

Vol. XXIV, #3 : William H. Gass

Vol. XXIV, #2 : Robert Creeley / Louis-Ferdinand Celine / Janet Frame

Vol. XXIV, #1 : Douglas Glover / Blaise Cendrars / Severo Sarduy

Vol. XXIII, #3 : Diane Williams / Aidan Higgins / Patricia Eakins

Vol. XXIII, #2 : Rick Moody / Ann Quin / Silas Flannery

Vol. XXIII, #1 : Gilbert Sorrentino’s Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

Vol. XXII, #3 : Louis Zukofsky / Nicholas Mosley / Coleman Dowell

Vol. XXII, #2 : New Japanese Fiction

Vol. XXII, #1 : Italo Calvino / Ursule Molinaro / B. S. Johnson

Vol. XXI, #3 : Gilbert Sorrentino / William Gaddis / Mary Caponegro / Margery Latimer

Vol. XXI, #2 : Janice Galloway / Thomas Bernhard / Robert Steiner / Elizabeth Bowen

Vol. XXI, #1 : David Antin

Vol. XX, #3 : Henry Green / James Kelman / Ariel Dorfman

Vol. XX, #2 : Jean Rhys / John Hawkes / Paul Bowles / Marguerite Young

Vol. XX, #1 : Bradford Morrow

Vol. XVIII, #3 : Richard Powers / Rikki Ducornet

Vol. XVIII, #2 : Curtis White / Milorad Pavic

Vol. XVIII, #1 : New Latvian Fiction

Vol. XVII, #3 : Raymond Queneau / Carole Maso

Vol. XVII, #2 : Wilson Harris / Alan Burns

Vol. XVII, #1 : Mario Vargas Llosa / Joseph Skvorecky

Vol. XVI, #3 : Edmund White / Samuel R. Delany

Vol. XVI, #2 : New Finnish Fiction

Vol. XVI, #1 : The Future of Fiction

Vol. XV, #3 : Brigid Brophy / Robert Creeley / Osman Lins

Vol. XV, #2 : Stanley Elkin / Alasdair Gray

Vol. XV, #1 : New Danish Fiction

Vol. XIX, #3 : The Best of The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Vol. XIX, #2 : Special Fiction Issue

Vol. XIX, #1 : Edward Sanders

Vol. XIV, #3 : Angela Carter / Tadeusz Konwicki

Vol. XIV, #2 : New Flemish Fiction

Vol. XIV, #1 : Paul Auster / Danilo Kis

Vol. XIII, #3 : Djuna Barnes

Vol. XIII, #2 : W. T. Vollmann / D. F. Wallace / Susan Daitch

Vol. XIII, #1 : Georges Perec / Felipe Alfau

Vol. XII, #3 : New Italian Fiction

Vol. XII, #2 : Jose Donoso / Jerome Charyn

Vol. XII, #1 : Robert Walser

Vol. XI, #3 : William H. Gass / Manuel Puig

Vol. XI, #2 : Donald Barthelme / Toby Olson

Vol. XI, #1 : Alexander Theroux / Paul West

Vol. X, #3 : Grove Press Number

Vol. X, #2 : John Barth / David Markson

Vol. X, #1 : Joseph McElroy

Vol. VIII, #3 : The Novelist as Critic

Vol. VIII, #2 : Claude Ollier / Carlos Fuentes

Vol. VIII, #1 : Arno Schmidt

Vol. VII, #3 : Harry Mathews

Vol. VII, #2 : Samuel Beckett

Vol. VII, #1 : Chandler Brossard

Vol. VI, #3 : Luisa Valenzuela

Vol. VI, #2 : Italo Calvino

Vol. VI, #1 : Special Fiction Issue

Vol. V, #3 : Charles Bukowski / Michel Butor

Vol. V, #2 : B.S. Johnson / Jean Rhys

Vol. V, #1 : Claude Simon

Vol. IX, #3 : Kathy Acker / Christine Brooke-Rose / Marguerite Young

Vol. IX, #2 : Milan Kundera / Zulfikar Ghose

Vol. IX, #1 : New French Fiction

Vol. IV, #3 : Camilo Jose Cela

Vol. IV, #2 : Juan Goytisolo / Ishmael Reed

Vol. IV, #1 : William S. Burroughs

Vol. III, #3 : Julio Cortazar / John Hawkes

Vol. III, #2 : Jack Kerouac / Robert Pinget

Vol. III, #1 : William Eastlake / Aidan Higgins

Vol. II, #3 : Paul Bowles / Coleman Dowell

Vol. II, #2 : William Gaddis / Nicholas Mosley

Vol. II, #1 : Douglas Woolf / Wallace Markfield

Vol. I, #2 : Paul Metcalf / Hubert Selby

Vol. I, #1 : Gilbert Sorrentino