The Review of Contemporary Fiction

New Latvian Fiction

* Nora Ikstena, "When Will Latvians Witness Those Times?" * Paul Bankovskis, "The Week of Golden Silence" * Guntis Berelis, "Beckett Is Alive: Texts to Myself" * Janis Einfelds, "Cucuimber Aria," "The Wonderful Bird," "Fate," * "Etude with a Bullet," "Nice Guy Moon," "Dundaga Mornings" * Nora Ikstena, "Pleasures of the Saints" * Arvis Kolmanis, "Veronica, the Schoolgirl" * Aija Lace, "The Stairs" * Andra Neiburga, "Summer Log (The Zone)" * Aivars Ozolins, "Tale No. 13" * Gundega Repse, "From Stigmata" * Janis Veveris, "Eventide" * Martins Zelmenis, "Storm Approaching" * Rimants Ziedonis, "The Flying Fish" * John O'Brien and Christopher Paddock, "The Bookstore in America: Woodland Pattern" * W. C. Bamberger, "William Eastlake (1917-1997)" * Books Received * Translators

• Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings ed. by Sacvan Bercovitch
• The Word "Desire" by Rikki Ducornet
• Collected Works, Volume Two: 1976-1986 by Paul Metcalf
• The Farewell Syphony by Edmund White
• A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas
• Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist by Anthony Cronin
• S by Patrick Deville, Jean Echenoz, Olivier Rolin, Mark Polizzotti, Florence Delay, Sonja Greenlee and Harry Mathews
• The Tetherballs of Bougainville by Mark Leyner
• An Irish Eye by John Hawkes and Crystals out of Chaos: John Hawkes and the Shapes of Apocalypse by Lesley Marx
• Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster
• Breakfast in Babylon by Emer Martin
• Already Dead: A California Gothic by Denis Johnson
• Guide by Dennis Cooper
• Maurice Blanchot: Refusal of Philopsophy by Gerald L. Bruns
• Making Waves: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa
• Big Blondes by Jean Echenoz
• A History Maker by Alasdair Gray
• Here by Nathalie Sarraute
• Hélène Cixous Rootprints: Memory and Life-Writing by Hélène Cixous and Mireille Calle-Gruber
• Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation by Marie Darrieussecq
• Busted Scotch: Selected Stories by James Kelman
• Petrolio by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• X20: A Novel of (Not) Smoking by Richard Beard
• Byrne: A Novel by Anthony Burgess
• With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Great Apes by Will Self
• Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology by Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron and Andrew Levy
• Dra— by Stacey Levine
• Gertrude Stein Remembered by Linda Simon
• Last Trolley from Beethovenstraat by Grete Weil
• Death in Equality by Lucinda Ebersole
• Rolling the R's by R. Zamora Linmark
• Acid Placid: New Scottish Writing by Harry Ritchie
• Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz by Irene Dische
• The Celibacy Club by Janice Eidis
• Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrére
• The Rendezvous by Justine Lévy
• Dangerous Virtues by Ana Mariá Moix
• When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth by Fernanda Eberstadt
• Rules of the Game, Volume One: Scratches and Rules of the Game, Volume Two: Scraps by Michel Leiris
• 1968: A History in Verse by Edward Sanders
• Drought by Debra DiBlasi
• Oriental Girls Desire Romance by Catherine Liu
• Blood Pact and Other Stories by Mario Benedetti
• Old Scores by Nicholas Delbanco
• A Guide to Twentieth Century-Women Novelists by Kathleen Wheeler
• The Troika by Stepan Chapman
• The Man Who Walked to the Moon by Howard McCord
• Cruel Fictions, Cruel Realities: Short Stories by Latin American Women Writers by Kathy S. Leonard
• Misfit: The Strange Life of Frederick Exley by Jonathan Yardley
• Passer en douce à la douane: L'ecriture minimaliste de Minuit: Deville, Echenoz, Redonnet et Toussaint by Ficke Schoots