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Paavo Matsin tells the parable of a small nation, whose gigantic neighbor...
Paavo Matsin, Gogol's Disco, Trans. by Adam Cullen, Dalkey Archive Press, 2020.excerptIn a parallel or future Estonia, whose language has been outlawed and its native population deported after the...
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Michaël Borremans - a master of contradiction. His paintings draw heavily...
Michaël Borremans, The Badger's Song: Series2013–2020, Walther König, Köln, 2021.The latest painting series from the Belgian master of eerie figurationBelgian artist Michaël Borremans (born 1963) is a...
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Petros Abatzoglou - Obsessed with food, alcohol, and the need to be the...
Petros Abatzoglou, What does Mrs. Freeman Want?, Trans. by , Dalkey Archive Press, 2005. While lying on a beach in Greece with an accommodating female companion, the narrator of this novel, Petros...
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M. T. Roberts - Featuring lyrical prose and a captivating alternate view of...
M. T. Roberts, The Ghost in the Grass, AberrantLiterature, 2021.read it hereAfter receiving a letter from a once dear but now estranged colleague, Dr. Mannswell travels to the Karoo of South Africa....
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Amaranth Borsuk - An unlikely marriage of print and digital, Between Page and...
Amaranth Borsuk, Between Page and Screen, Siglio, 2012.http://www.amaranthborsuk.com/Created in collaboration with programmer Brad Bouse, Between Page and Screen is a book of poems that contains no...
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Big Bruiser Dope Boy - It's hurt shit. A laugh that ends with a turned head...
Big Bruiser Dope Boy, Something Gross,Apocalypse Party, 2021. "This genre-defying account (novel? narrative poem?) of the troubled love of a young man for an emotionally stunted older one in the bars...
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Susana Thénon - a collection full of stylistic innovation, language play,...
Susana Thénon, Ova Completa, Ugly DucklingPresse, 2021.excerpt (pdf) Susana Thénon (1935–1991) is a key poet of the ’60s generation in Argentina. In Ova Completa, her final, most radical collection,...
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Maria ter Meetelen - "From the age of thirteen I wandered abroad and at...
Maria ter Meetelen, The Curious and AmazingAdventures of Maria ter Meetelen; Twelve Yearsa Slave (1731- 43), Trans. by Caroline Stoneand Karen Johnson, Hardinge Simpole, 2010."From the age of thirteen...
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Michael Kinsella - Through collective performances, legend-trippers harness...
Michael Kinsella: Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat University Press of Mississippi, 2011.On the Internet, seekers investigate anonymous manifestos that focus...
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Shakesqueer - Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard’s...
Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, Duke University Press Books, 2011.Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of...
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Emilio Fraia - People have just two or three stories in their lives. You...
Emilio Fraia, Sevastopol, Trans. by Zoë Perry,New Directions, 2021.Three subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, each burrowing into a turning point in a person’s life: a young...
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Zak Ferguson - Manic images somehow increasingly specific, like intimate...
Zak Ferguson, The System Compendium, SweatDrenched Press, 2021.T H I S I S N O T A B O O KI T I S A S T A T E M E N T I T I SA N anti - A N T I - A N T I - N O V E L.I T I S A M A N I F E S T O.A P A...
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Ivan Boris - a hallucinogenic detective mystery involving demonic Kantian...
Ivan Boris, My Week Without Gérard, MorbidBooks, 2021.‘A surreal, slapstick nightmare set in the end-times of countercultural journalism.‘In search of France’s superstar philosopher who has...
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Curt Corrinth - his first novel to employ an Expressionist, frenetic prose...
Curt Corrinth, Potsdamer Platz, Or, the Nights ofthe New Messiah: Ecstatic Visions, Illustrated byPaul Klee, Trans by W. C. Bamberger, WakefieldPress, 2021. [1919.]First published in German in 1919,...
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Aleksander Wat - One of the most original, fascinating, and curious figures...
Aleksander Wat, Lucifer Unemployed, Trans. by Lillian Vallee, Northwestern University Press, 1990.download (pdf)In these nine stories the Polish writer Aleksander Wat consistently turns history on its...
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Paynim - a cyberdecadent Maldoror coded among the ruins of a romantic hell,...
Paynim, The Anti-M3ssiah, gnOme books, 2020.read it at Google BooksThere can be no preamble to what follows. In many ways the words contained herein form the outline of a catastrophe in thought: an...
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The Museum of Apparitions - Beneath the vaulted suspicions of all that is...
The Museum of Apparitions, gnOme, 2020.read it at Google BooksThroughout recorded history, various parts of the world have generated reports of crimes and assaults that are, to use the language of the...
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Lukáš Likavčan - The book looks at the way we envisage our planet through...
Lukáš Likavčan, Introduction to ComparativePlanetology, Strelka Press, 2019.excerptDifferent philosophical and visual imaginations of the Earth reflect different geopolitical arrangements and...
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Federigo Tozzi - His work is at once a mixture of subtlety and melodrama, of...
Federigo Tozzi, Love in Vain: Selected Stories, Trans. by Minna Proctor, New Directions, 2001.read it at Google BooksLove in Vain: Selected Stories of Federigo Tozzi is the debut short-story collection...
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Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint - History, like light, is porous, multitudinous,...
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Names for Light, Graywolf Press, 2021.Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a family’s history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial...
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