The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Italo Calvino / Ursule Molinaro / B. S. Johnson

• Philip Tew, "B.S. Johnson"
• Alan Tinkler, "Italo Calvino"
• Bruce Benderson, "Ursule Molinaro"
• Ursule Molinaro, "Why Speak Ill of the Surface? Only the Void Has None"
• Books Received

BOOK REVIEWS

• Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative by John Barth
• Tarzan's Tonsillitis by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
• The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa. Trans. Edith Grossman
• Argall by William T. Vollmann
• The Impossibly by Laird Hunt
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Dump This Book While You Still Can! by Marcel Bénabou. Trans. Steven Rendall
• Atet by Nathaniel Mackey
• Azarel by Károly Pap. Trans. Paul Olchváry
• Requiem for a Lost Empire by Andreï Makine. Trans. Geoffrey Strachan
• The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold by Kate Bernheimer
• Diary of an Adulterous Woman by Curt Leviant
• Black Oxen by Elizabeth Knox
• The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
• Landor's Tower by Iain Sinclair
• The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace
• Bucking the Tiger by Bruce Olds
• Irish Wine: The Trilogy by Dick Wimmer
• The Fourth Century by Édouard Glissant. Trans. Betsy Wing
• Two Fields That Face and Mirror Each Other by Martin Nakell
• Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
• The Bitter Smell of Almonds: Selected Fiction by Arnost Lustig. Trans. Vera Borkovec, et al
• Points of Departure: New Stories from Mexico by Mónica Lavín, Ed. Trans. Gustavo V. Segade
• Come Up and See Me Sometime by Erika Krouse
• The Practical Heart: Four Novellas by Allan Gurganus
• Pressure Drop by Robert Buckeye
• Circle K Cycles by Karen Tei Yamashita
• The Tenth Circle by Mempo Giardinelli. Trans. Andrea G. Labinger
• The Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas
• A Chapter from Her Upbringing by Ivy Goodman
• The Burining Mirror by Suhayl Saadi
• Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology Antony Polonsky and Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Eds.
• Lucchesi and The Whale by Frank Lentricchia
• Three Apples Fell from Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
• Bait by David Albahari. Trans. Peter Agnone
• The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
• The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda by Sonia Rivera-Valdés. Trans. Dick Cluster, et al.
• Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
• Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink
• Returning Lost Loves by Yehoshua Kenaz
• Woodcuts of Women by Dagoberto Gilb
• Jewelry Talks by Richard Klein
• To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays by Gertrude Stein
• Her Husband by Luigi Pirandello. Trans. Martha King and Mary Ann Frese Witt
• Cobralingus by Jeff Noon
• Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz. Trans. Danuta Borchardt
• The Angle Quickest for Flight by Steven Kotler
• Literature and the Gods by Roberto Calasso. Trans. Tim Parks
• Master Class: Scenes from a Fiction Workshop by Paul West
• Mallarmé in Prose by Stéphane Mallarmé. Trans. Jill Anderson, et al.
• Milosz's ABC's by Czeslaw Milosz
• Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986-1999 by J.M. Coetzee
• Shop Talk by Philip Roth