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Medardo Fraile - Like Anton Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield, Medardo Fraile...
Medardo Fraile, Things Look Different in the Light and Other Stories. Trans. by Margaret Jull Costa, Pushkin Press, 2014.excerptA beautifully crafted collection of short stories from the Spanish master...
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Roger Vailland - The grotesque game of the Law, played in the taverns of...
Roger Vailland, The Law: A Novel Set in Apulia, Trans. by Peter Wiles. Southern Italy, Jonathan Cape, 1958., Eland Books, 2004. Now back in print, Roger Vailland's atmospheric 1957 novel won the...
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Claire-Louise Bennett - Captivated by the stellar charms of seclusion but...
Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond, The Stinging Fly, 2015.excerptstory 'The Lady of the House'How much should you let in, and how much should you give away?Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing...
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The Uncanny Reader - From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural,...
The Uncanny Reader:Stories from the Shadows, Ed. by Marjorie Sandor. St. Martin's Griffin, 2015.From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, these thirty-one border-crossing stories from...
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Sean H Doyle is a punk rock sailor shaman with a message from way down below...
Sean H Doyle, This Must Be the Place, Civil Coping Mechanism, 2015.www.seanhdoyle.com I come here after my shift at the record store and sit around at picnic tables outside, scribbling into notebooks...
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Hugo García Manríquez - Twenty years after the NAFTA document took effect,...
Hugo García Manríquez, Anti-Humboldt, Litmus Press, 2015.In 2010 Hugo García Manríquez set out to work through the North American Free Trade Agreement in Spanish and English. The result is a bilingual...
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Michael Hofmann offers a hand to guide us and an encouraging whisper in our...
Michael Hofmann, Where Have You Been?: Selected Essays, FSG, 2014.www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/michael-hofmannAn adventure with a roving genius of literary criticismMichael Hofmann—poet, translator, and...
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Claire Potter takes language and performs upon it its own failings of...
Claire Potter, Mental Furniture,Very Small Kitchen, 2014.Read a sample PDF of the opening pageshere.clairelouisepotter.blogspot.co.uk/It follows the mental breakdown of an author-character who writes...
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Max Biller - Evoking Bulgakov and Singer, Biller takes us on an astounding,...
Max Biller, Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz, Trans. by Anthea Bell Pushkin Press, 2015.Bruno Schulz has foreseen catastrophe and is almost paralysed by fear. His last chance of survival is to leave...
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Nicolas Rothwell - Suddenly I had a picture of life, what it really is; just...
Nicolas Rothwell, Belomor, Text Publishing, 2013.nicolasrothwell.com/In the early 1930s the Soviet Union built, with convict labour, a canal between the White Sea and the Baltic. Given the convenient...
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Seno Gumira Ajidarma combines the surreal and the actual in a way that...
Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Jazz, Perfume and the Incident, Trans. by Gregory Harris. Lontar Foundation 2013. [1996.]Jazz, Perfume & the Incident, by Seno Gumira Ajidarma, was first published in...
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Sergio Ramírez - Passion, money, sex, gossip, political intrigue, medical...
Sergio Ramírez, Divine Punishment. Trans. by Nick Caistor with Hebe Powell, McPherson & Co., 2015.Upon its original publication, Carlos Fuentes declared Divine Punishment to be the quintessential...
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Gregory Howard - stories spill out of other stories to swim, swirl, dance...
Gregory Howard, Hospice, Fiction Collective 2, 2015.gregoryhoward.net/Read excerpts from Hospicehere and here on Harp & Altar.Here at The Collagist.And here at Trickhouse.When Lucy is little...
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Patricia Lear - Eight short stories that strain after the colloquial in...
Patricia Lear, Stardust, 7-Eleven, Route 57, A&W, and So Forth, BookSurge Publishing, 2008.The New York Times Book Review calls "After Memphis", one of the stories in this debut collection, "Surely...
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Léon Werth and his wife fled Paris before the advancing Nazis Army. 33 Days...
Léon Werth, 33 Days: A Memoir, Trans. by Austin D. Johnston. Melville House, 2015.A rare eyewitness account by an important author of fleeing the Nazis’ march on Paris in 1940, featuring a...
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Tatsumi Hijikata became concerned with developing notation for his Butoh, and...
Tatsumi Hijikata, Costume en Face: A Primer of Darkness for Young Boys and Girls, Trans. by Sawako Nakayasu Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015.Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986) is a founding father of the radical...
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Chika Sagawa - Though largely ignored for many years after her death, she is...
Chika Sagawa, The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa. Translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu. Canarium Books, 2015.The first comprehensive collection of one of Japan's foremost modernists to...
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Michael Hickins - The 11 linked stories in this collection form a bizarre and...
Michael Hickins, The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing, iUniverse, 2000.michaelmissing.com/Michael Missing, the name of eleven different young men in various states of unrest, is the linked but...
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Jón Gnarr - this is both a memoir and a novel. It will tell a truthful story...
Jón Gnarr, The Indian, Translated by Lytton Smith, Deep Vellum, 2015.The opening of Jón Gnarr’s novel/memoir The Indian is a playful bit of extravagant ego, telling the traditional story of creation,...
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Hugo Wilcken - Written in relentlessly probing prose with a delicious plot...
Hugo Wilcken, The Reflection, Melville House, 2015.Hugo Wilcken's first novel, The Execution—a taut, psychological mystery about an average person who commits an accidental murder—got the kind of rave...
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