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Home  | Book Reviews  | September 2012 


FICTION

  • The Cyclist Conspiracy

    Svetislav Basara. Randall A. Major tr.

     
  • L’Étrange rêve d’une femme inachevée

    Libar M. Fofana

     
  • Goliath

    Tom Gauld

     
  • No Time Like the Present

    Nadine Gordimer

     
  • Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

    Mohammed Hanif

     
  • The Orphan Master’s Son

    Adam Johnson

     
  • Traveler of the Century

    Andrés Neuman. Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, tr.

     
  • Rue Darwin

    Boualem Sansal

     
  • Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

    Etgar Keret. Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, and Nathan Englander, tr.

     
  • Amerika

    Sergio Kokis

     
  • Blanco nocturno

    Ricardo Piglia

     


VERSE

  • Karma Crisis

    Nathan Brown

     
  • The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

    Geoffrey Brock, ed.

     
  • Night Flight

    Kerry Shawn Keys

     
  • Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964–2001

    W. G. Sebald. Iain Galbraith, tr.

     


MISCELLANEOUS

  • Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

    Christopher Bram

     
  • Distrust That Particular Flavor

    William Gibson

     
  • I Lived on This Earth: Hungarian Poets on the Holocaust

    George Gömöri & Mari Gömöri, ed.

     
  • Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry

    Alan Mintz

     
  • Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey through Reservation Life

    David Treuer

     

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BACK ISSUE

September 2012

Very Short Fiction 12 x 10 x 10 (twelve stories by ten writers from ten different countries), along with a cover feature on Equatorial Guinean literature.


Table of Contents

Very Short Fiction

"The Vision," Carmen Boullosa
by
Two Stories, Alex Epstein
by
"Skellig," Vanessa Gebbie
by
"We See Our Mother Go to Bed," Josefine Klougart
by
"Baku," Sylvia Petter
by
"Truth," Nora Nadjarian
by
"Continuity of Hell," Andrés Neuman
by
"Two Stories," Clemens Setz
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Dedications
by Luis Jorge Boone
ESSAY
The Remarkable Reinvention of Very Short Fiction
by Robert Shapard
INTERVIEW
The Very Short Q&A on Very Short Fiction
by
The Surprise
by Lili Potpara
History Will Not Be Made on This Couch
by Hisham Bustani
Continuity of Hell
by Andrés Neuman

Equatorial Guinean Literature

ESSAY "The Struggle Against State-Promoted Amnesia," Elisa Rizo
by
POETRY Five Poems, Marcelo Ensema Nsang
by
POETRY Three Poems, Raquel Ilonbé
by
POETRY “Intimate History of Humanity” by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, tr. David Shook
by
INTERVIEW "A Conversation with Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel," Elisa Rizo & David Shook
by
EXCERPT WEB EXCLUSIVE
Excerpts from Ö Börukku (Nostalgia)
by Recaredo Silebo Boturu

INTERVIEWS

A Brief Conversation with Caroline Adderson
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
The Uncertain Territory of MemoryA Conversation with Chilean Writer Roberto Brodsky
by Lisa DiGiovanni & Pedro García-Caro
WEB EXCLUSIVE
“A Rustle in History”: Conversations with Boualem Sansal
by Dinah Assouline Stillman

Fiction

"Waiting," Bewketu Seyoum
by

ESSAYS

“I Went to Jerusalem, and Returned Delighted and Enriched,” Boualem Sansal
by
Wheels of Fire: Writers on Bicycles
by Alon Raab

Poetry

Two Poems, Håkan Sandell
by
Two Poems, Bewketu Seyoum
by
"Ode to Bicycles," Pablo Neruda
by

In Every Issue

City Profile: Cartagena, Colombia’s “Woodstock of the Mind”
by
New Books: Childhood
by
Outposts: Citlaltépetl Refuge House, Mexico City
by
Editor's Pick: The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine
by Daniel Simon
What to Read Now: Mixed-Genre Literature
by Giannina Braschi

Editor's Note, September 2012
by Daniel Simon

BOOK REVIEWS


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