Book Reviews
- Annihilation (Piotr Szewc)
- a one day tour of a Polish-Jewish town in the 1930s
- Chinese Letter (Svetislav Basara)
- an existentialist comedy
- *The City Builder (George Konrad)
- a planner's life in a provincial Eastern European town
- *The Company of Ghosts (Lydie Salvayre)
- a madwoman remembering Vichy; her teenage daughter; a process-server
- *Garden, Ashes (Danilo Kis)
- a lyrical childhood in wartime Hungary
- The Lecture (Lydie Salvayre)
- a comic extravaganza of a monologue
- *Marks of Identity (Juan Goytisolo)
- youth between Franco's Spain and exile
- Natural Novel (Georgi Gospodinov)
- a comedy in fragments
- *Night (Vedrana Rudan)
- a Croatian woman sounds off
- The Polish Complex (Tadeusz Konwicki)
- personal and national angsts intertwine
- Television (Jean-Philippe Toussaint)
- a procrastinating academic gives up watching television
- Thank You For Not Reading (Dubravka Ugresic)
Essays on Literary Trivia
- Tlooth (Harry Mathews)
- wildly inventive games with language, narrative, and ideas
- *A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Danilo Kis)
- dark stories of revolutionaries betrayed
- *Voices From Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich)
The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
The Dalkey Archive
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