The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Special Fiction Issue

• David Bellos, "Introduction: The Book of Bachelors by Philip Terry"
• Philip Terry, "The Book of Bachelors"
• Philip Terry, "Afterword"
• Dear Editor
• Books Received

 BOOK REVIEWS

• Objects on a Table, by Guy Davenport
• Bernhard, by Yoel Hoffmann
• Next, by Christine Brooke-Rose
• Necessary Fictions, by Barbara Croft
• Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future, by Patti Smith
• Out of the Loud, by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Suspended Sentences, by Albert J. Gerard
• Under the Autumn Star, by Knut Hamsun
• Extremities, by Kathe Koja
• More Bread or I'll Appear, by Emer Martin
• Soon, by A.G. Mojtabai
• The Town of N, by Leonid Dobychin
• FirstDays of the Year and Stigamata: Escaping Texts, by Hélène Cixous
• The Prince of Fire: An Anthology of Comtemporary Serbian Short Stories, by Radmila J. Gorup and Nadezda Obradovic
• Don Carlos, by Thorvald Steen
• The Trial, by Franz Kafka
• Is Sex Necessary?: Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do?, by James Thurber and E.B. White
• The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, by Rebecca Brown
• Arcade, Or How to Write a Novel, by Gordon Lish
• Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, by Richard Burgin
• Into the Tunnel: Readings of Gass's Novels, by Steven G. Kellmann and Irving Malin
• Wrong Information is Being Given out at Princeton, by J.P. Donleavy
• The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa
• A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories, by Victor Pelevin
• The World and Other Places, by Jeanette Winterson
• From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts and Electronic Media, by Silvio Gaggi
• The World of Nabokov's Short Stories, by Maxim D. Shrayer
• The Origins of Postmodernity, by Perry Anderson; The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern 1983-1998, by Fredric Jameson
• The Ladies From St. Petersburg: Three Novellas, by Nina Berberova
• Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites & Public Culture, by Lawrence Rainey