The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Gilbert Sorrentino’s Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

• Editor’s Note
• David Andrews, "Of Love, Scorn, and Contradiction: An Interpretive Overview of Gilbert Sorrentino’s Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things"
• Tyrus Miller, "Fictional Truths: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things between Image and Language"
• Stacey Olster, "Gilbert Sorrentino’s Problematic Middle Child: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things"
• Joseph Tabbi, "Matter into Imagination: The Cognitive Realism of Gilbert Sorrentino’s Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things"
• Kevin Alexander Boon, "Gilbert Sorrentino: Cataloging the Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things"
• Selected Critical Bibliography: Interviews, Reviews, and Articles on Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
• A Gilbert Sorrentino Checklist
• Miriam Fuchs, "Interview with Marguerite Young"
• Books Received

BOOK REVIEWS

• The Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers
• Agape- Agape, by William Gaddis
• The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings by William Gaddis, edited by Joseph Tabbi
• Waiting Period, by Hubert Selby, Jr
• The King in the Tree, by Steven Millhauser
• Miniatures, by Norah Labiner
• Boxwood, by Camilo José Cela, translated by Patricia Haugaard
• Music of a Life, by Andreï Makine, translated by Geoffrey Strachan
• The Portable Promised Land, by Touré
• The Cave, by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
• Aminadab, by Maurice Blanchot, translated by Jeff Fort
• Flicker in the Porthole Glass, by Edward Desautels
• In Search of Klingsor, by Jorge Volpi, translated by Kristina Cordero
• Kallocain, by Karin Boye, translated by Gustaf Lannestock
• Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse, by Nazim Hikmet, translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
• Camouflage, by Murray Bail
• You Shall Know Our Velocity, by Dave Eggers
• Faire l’amour, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
• Great Dream of Heaven, by Sam Shepard
• To the End of the World, by Blaise Cendrars, translated by Alan Brown
• “The Rehabilitation of Freud” and “Bakhtin and Others,” by Victor Beilis, translated by Richard Grose
• Stories in the Worst Way, by Gary Lutz
• The Isaac Quartet: Blue Eyes, Marilyn the Wild, The Education of Patrick Silver, Secret Isaac, by Jerome Charyn
• State of Siege, by Juan Goytisolo, translated by Helen Lane
• Things You Should Know, by A. M. Homes
• Leviathan 3: Libri quosdam ad sciéntiam, álios ad insaniam deduxére, edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Forrest Aguirre
• The Green Hour by Frederic Tuten
• The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza. Trans. Sonia Soto
• Selected Stories by Robert Walser. Trans. Christopher Middleton, et al.
• One Man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian. Trans. Mabel Lee
• I by Stephen Dixon
• Simply Separate People by Lynn Crawford
• Cries in the New Wilderness: From the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism by Mikhail Epstein. Trans. and intro. Eve Adler
• Cistern Tawdry by Eckhard Gerdes
• Dans le train by Christian Oster
• Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare. Trans. from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos
• A Whistler in the Nightworld: Short Fiction from the Latin Americas by Thomas Colchie, ed.
• Touch Wood by Joe Ashby Porter
• The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Double (Doppelangelgänger) by Greg Boyd
• Prague by Arthur Phillips
• Carrying the Body by Dawn Raffel
• Big If by Mark Costello
• Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson
• Maps of Women’s Goings and Stayings by Rela Mazali
• Fairy Ring by Martine Desjardins. Trans. Fred A. Reed and David Homel
• My Heart Is That Eternal Rose Tattoo by John Yau
• Invisible Author: Last Essays by Christine Brooke-Rose
• The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
• Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa. Trans. Natasha Wimmer
• From Quarry Road: Uncollected Essays and Reviews of Paul Metcalf by Paul Metcalf. Ed. and intro. Robert Buckeye. Preface Jonathan Williams
• Cognitive Fictions by Joseph Tabbi
• Understanding Richard Powers by Joseph Dewey
• “Too Good to Be True”: The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler by Mark Royden Winchell