The Review of Contemporary Fiction

New Writing on Writing

• "The Esthetic Structure of the Sentence," by William H. Gass
• "The Subtle Genius of the Novel," by Olivier Rolin
• "Absolute Beginners," by Paul West
• "The Sutured Subject," by Gail Scott
• "Musing," by Aidan Higgins
• "Continents Kept Hidden," by Gert Jonke
• "The Fools of Time," by Nicholas Delbanco
• "From Western to Novel," by Christine Montalbetti
• "Onirism," by Dumitru Tsepeneag
• "Jean Rolin's Explosion," by Warren Motte
• "After the Silence," by Georgi Gospodinov

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BOOK REVIEWS

• The Lazarus Project, by Aleksandar Hemon
• As a Friend, by Forrest Gander
• New Lives, by Ingo Schulze
• Cortejo de Sombras, by Julián Ríos
• Travel Pictures, by Heinrich Heine
• The Young Man from Savoy, by C-F Ramuz
• Vacation, by Deb Olin Unferth
• Kieron Smith, Boy, by James Kelman
• The Shadow Factory, by Paul West
• The Dead All Have the Same Skin, by Boris Vian
• Of My Real Life I Know Nothing, by Ana María Moix
• The Book of Chameleons, by José Eduardo Agualusa
• My Amputations, by Clarence Major
• Jesus Coyote, by Harold Jaffe
• New World/New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas, edited by Thomas Christensen
• The American Epic Novel in the Late Twentieth Century: The Super-Genre of the Imperial State, by W. Gilbert Adair