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