The Review of Contemporary Fiction
New Japanese Fiction
- Takayuki Tasumi, "The Japanoid Mamifesto: Toward a New Poetics of Invisible Culure"
- Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory, "Introduction"
- Mitsutaka Oide, "Thinking the Opposite: An Interview with Yoshio Aramaki"
- Yoshio Aramaki, "Soft Clocks"
- Larry McCaffery, Sinda Gregory, and Takayuki Tatsumi, "A Meaning in Art That’s No Longer Possible: An Interview with Kiyoshi Kasai"
- Kiyoshi Kasai, "Oedipus City"
- Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, "Not Just a Gibson Clone: An Interview with Goro Masaki"
- Goro Masaki, "The Human Factor (from Evil Eyes)" * Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, "Bird outside the Cage: An Interview with Yumi Matsuo"
- Yumi Matsuo, "Murder in Balloon Town"
- Sinda Gregory, Toshifumi Miyawaki, and Larry McCaffery, "It Don’t Mean a Thing , If it Ain’t Got That Swing: An Interview with Haruki Murakami"
- Haruki Murakami, "Three German Fantasies"
- Larry McCaffery, Sinda Gregory, Mari Kotani, and Takayuki Tatsumi, "The Twister of Imagination: An Interview with Mariko Ohara"
- Mariko Ohara, "The Mental Female"
- Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, "Sophisticated Masochism: An Interview with Masahiko Shimada"
- Masahiko Shimada, "Stalled at a Kiss (from Master and Discipline)"
- Larry McCaffery, Sinda Gregory, Mari Kotani, and Takayuki Tatsumi, "This Conflict between Illusion and Brutal Reality: An Interview with Yoriko Shono"
- Yoriko Shono, "Time Warp Complex"
- Larry McCaffery, Sinda Gregory, and Yoshiaki Koshikawa, "Why Not Have Fun?—An Interview with Gen’ichiro Takahashi"
- Gen’ichiro Takahashi, "Ghostbusters—An Adventure Story"
- Larry McCaffery, Sinda Gregory, and Takayuki Tatsumi, "Keeping Not Writing: An Interview with Yasutaka Tsutsui"
- Yasutaka Tsutsui, "Just a Nobody (from The Rumors about Me)"
- Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory, "A (Very) Selective Bibliography of Modern and Postmodern Japanese Fiction and Culture (English Translation Only)"
- Books Received
BOOK REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
- Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich
- The Ambidextrist by Peter Rock
- Mona and Other Tales by Reinaldo Arenas. Selected and trans. Dolores M. Koch
- Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison
- Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford
- 3 to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith
- Someone to Watch Over Me by Paul Wilson
- Haussmann, Or the Distinction by Paul LaFarge
- War Babies by Frederick Busch
- Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah
- Among the Missing by Dan Chaon
- A Simpler Time, A Simpler Place: Three Mid-Century Stories by Gerald Locklin
- Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
- Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories by Lydia Davis
- Happening by Annie Ernaux. Trans. Tanya Leslie
- Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern 1950-1995 by Terry Southern. Ed. Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman
- 30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey
- Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction by Amy Elias
- B. S. Johnson: A Critical Reading by Philip Tew
- On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays by A. S. Byatt
- Robert Creeley: A Biography by Ekbert Faas With Maria Trombacco
- Twelve Stories of Russia: A Novel, I Guess by A. J. Perry
- Mitsutaka Oide, "Thinking the Opposite: An Interview with Yoshio Aramaki"
- Larry McCaffery, Sinda Gregory, and Takayuki Tatsumi, "A Meaning in Art That’s No Longer Possible: An Interview with Kiyoshi Kasai"
- Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, "Bird outside the Cage: An Interview with Yumi Matsuo"
- Sinda Gregory, Toshifumi Miyawaki, and Larry McCaffery, "It Don’t Mean a Thing, If it Ain’t Got That Swing: An Interview with Haruki Murakami"
- Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, "Not Just a Gibson Clone: An Interview with Goro Masaki"
- Larry McCaffery, Sinda Gregory, Mari Kotani, and Takayuki Tatsumi, "The Twister of Imagination: An Interview with Mariko Ohara"
- Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, "Sophisticated Masochism: An Interview with Masahiko Shimada"
- Larry McCaffery, Sinda Gregory, Mari Kotani, and Takayuki Tatsumi, "This Conflict between Illusion and Brutal Reality: An Interview with Yoriko Shono"
- Larry McCaffery, Sinda Gregory, and Yoshiaki Koshikawa, "Why Not Have Fun?—An Interview with Gen’ichiro Takahashi"
- Larry McCaffery, Sinda Gregory, and Takayuki Tatsumi, "Keeping Not Writing: An Interview with Yasutaka Tsutsui"
- Little Casino by Gilbert Sorrentino
- Tests of Time by William H. Gass
- The Jardin des Plantes by Claude Simon. Trans. and intro. Jordan Stump
- Going to See the Elephant: Pieces of a Writing Life by George Garrett Ed. Jeb Livingood
- Lovers & Murderers by Vladimír Páral. Trans. Craig Cravens
- Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader by Brion Gysin. Ed. Jason Weiss
- All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom. Trans. Susan Massotty
- Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources by David Mamet
- Gardener of Stars by Carla Harryman
- Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin Trans. Roger and Angela Keys. Intro. Susan Sontag
- The Return of the Caravels by António Lobo Antunes Trans. Gregory Rabassa
- Number9Dream by David Mitchell
- Roscoe by William Kennedy
- Erasure by Percival Everett
- The Blue Guide to Indiana by Michael Martone
- Orchid Jetsam by Dee Goda
- Three to See the King by Magnus Mills
- Collected Works of Alfred Jarry, Volume 1: Adventures in ’Pataphysics by Alfred Jarry Trans. Paul Edwards and Antony Melville. Ed. Alastair Brotchie and Paul Edwards
- Postmodern Pooh by Frederick Crews
- Here Lies by David Gilbert and Karl Roeseler, eds.
- Valentine by Lucius Shepard
- The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell) by Robert Coover
- The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese by Cesare Pavese. Trans. and intro. R. W. Flint
- Bear v. Shark by Chris Bachelder
- Gabriel’s Gift by Hanif Kureishi
- The Spirit Returns by Richard Burgin
- The Crime Studio by Steve Aylett
- The Yellow Sailor by Steve Weiner