The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Dalkey Archive Annual 2
- Editor's Note
- From The Mirror in the Well, by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
- From Prairie Style, by C.S. Giscombe
- From Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine, by Stanley Crawford
- From The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Burton Pike)
- From Homage to Czerny: Studies in Virtuoso Technique, by Gert Jonke (translated by Jean M. Snook)
- From The One Marvelous Thing, by Rikki Ducornet
- From The Bathroom, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (translated by Nancy Amphoux & Paul De Angelis)
- From Talking Out of School, by Kass Fleisher
- From A Nest of Ninnies, by John Ashbery & James Schuyler
- From Pigeon Post, by Dumitru Tsepeneag (translated by Jane Kuntz)
- From Dust, by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (translated by Evgeny Pavlov)
- From Anonymous Celebrity, by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão (translated by Nelson H. Vieira)
- From Hoppla! 1 2 3, by Gérard Gavarry (translated by Jane Kuntz)
- From News from the Empire, by Fernando del Paso (translated by Alfonso Gonzalez & Stella Clark)
- From Encounters with Samuel Beckett, by Charles Juliet (translated by Axel Nesme & Tracy Cooke)
- From Western, by Christine Montalbetti (translated by Betsy Wing)
- From Jerusalem, by Gonçalo M. Tavares (translated by Anna Kushner)
- contributors
- translators
- books received
BOOK REVIEWS
- A Game of War, by Guy Debord and Alice Becker-Ho
- Draining the Sea, by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
- Petits Déjeuners avec quelques écrivains célèbres, by Christine Montalbetti
- Pushkin’s Second Wife and Other Micronovels, by Yuri Druzhnikov
- The Lost Books of the Odyssey, by Zachary Mason
- Insect Dreams, by Rosalind Palermo Stevenson
- Detective Story, by Imre Kertész
- Newcomer Can’t Swim, by Renee Gladman
- Cinema Stories, by Alexander Kluge
- The Jirí Chronicles and Other Fictions, by Debra Di Blasi
- Tampico: A Novel, by Toby Olson
- Between Panic & Desire, by Dinty W. Moore
- Dangerous Laughter, by Steven Millhauser
- Tortoise, by James Lewelling
- Kissed By, by Alexandra Chasin
- Three Contemporary German-Language Fiction Writers: Lichtenberg, Röggla, Schnider, by Bernd Lichtenberg, Kathrin Röggla, and Kristin Schnider
- The Mandarin: A Novel, by Aaron Kunin
- Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Roberto Bolaño
- Bass Cathedral, by Nathaniel Mackey
- N Judah, by Len Jenkin
- The Trouble with Being Born, by Jeffrey DeShell
- Our Story Begins, by Tobias Wolff
- December, by Elizabeth Hertley Winthrop
- Selected Poems, by Frank O’Hara