The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Janice Galloway / Thomas Bernhard / Robert Steiner / Elizabeth Bowen
* Mary McGlynn, "Janice Galloway" * Thomas Cousineau, "Thomas Bernhard" * Nancy Blake, "Robert Steiner" * Chris Hopkins, "Elizabeth Bowen" * Books Received
- Gold Fools by Gilbert Sorrentino
- The Absent City by Ricardo Piglia
- Undercurrents by Marie Darrieussecq
- The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories by Carlos Fuentes and Julio Ortega, eds.
- A Fifth of November by Paul West
- John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
- Monstruary by Julían Ríos. Trans. Edith Grossman
- Letters from Hanusse by Joshua Haigh. Ed. Douglas Messerli
- Here’s to You, Jesusa! by Elena Poniatowska. Trans. Deanna Heikkinen
- This Is Not a Novel by David Markson
- 16 Categories of Desire by Douglas Glover
- Father of the Four Passages by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
- I’m Gone by Jean Echenoz. Trans. Mark Polizzotti
- Whose Song? and Other Stories by Thomas Glave
- Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian. Trans. Mabel Lee
- Loverboy by Victoria Redel
- Silence on the Shores by Leïla Sebbar. Trans. Mildred Mortimer
- On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke. Trans. Krishna Winston
- Head by William Tester
- Trailer Girl and Other Stories by Terese Svoboda
- The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories by Nina Berberova. Trans. Marian Schwartz
- The Biographer’s Tale by A. S. Byatt
- Love by Péter Nádas. Trans. Imre Goldstein
- A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell by Jonathan Safran Foer, ed.
- Love, etc by Julian Barnes
- The Hell Screens by Alvin Lu
- Letters to Wendy’s by Joe Wenderoth
- Cool for You: A Novel by Eileen Myles
- Loving Sabotage by Amélie Nothomb. Trans. Andrew Wilson
- Eclipse by John Banville
- The Hunter by Julia Leigh
- Distortion by Stephen Beachy
- The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson
- The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
- dem by William Melvin Kelley
- The Chase and The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
- Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams by Mark Ford. Foreword by John Ashbery
- Lies: A Diary, 1986-1999 by Ned Rorem
- Pynchon and "Mason & Dixon" by Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin, eds.
- Blackbird Dust: Essays, Poems, Photographs by Jonathan Williams
- Marcel Proust by William Carter
- Autodafe #1 by Christian Salmon, ed.
- Letters from the Editor: "The New Yorker"’s Harold Ross by Harold Ross. Ed. Thomas Kunkel