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'Death: A Graveside Companion' examines a staggering range of cultural...
Death: A Graveside Companion, Joanna Ebenstein, ed., Thames & Hudson, 2017.The ultimate death compendium, featuring the world’s most extraordinary artistic objects concerned with mortality,...
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Martin MacInnes - offers up 29 explanations as to what happened to Carlos....
Martin MacInnes, Infinite Ground, Atlantic Books, 2016.martinmacinnes.com/“Stunning—a totally original, surreal mystery shot through with hints of the best of César Aira, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela...
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Jared Joseph - simultaneously a mystical text, an autofiction driven by...
Jared Joseph, Drowsy. Drowsy Baby, Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017. Read ExcerptJared Joseph’s Drowsy. Drowsy Baby is a book and the translation of a book. It is a scroll named Jenny, after Noah’s...
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Ella Longpre - a book of common prayer, about the real ways in which we ruin,...
Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017.‘How does one stay alive? This book asks the impossible question of how one maintains a separation between past and present, memory from self, and inheritance from...
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Cristina Rivera-Garza - In this surreal queer novel, a mysterious woman...
Cristina Rivera-Garza, The Iliac Crest, Trans. by Sarah Booker, The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2017.excerptOn a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they...
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Margarita Karapanou - Her extremely muscular, tight prose makes a fine medium...
Margarita Karapanou, The Sleepwalker, Trans. by Karen Emmerich, Clockroot Books, 2010. "Margarita Karapanou leads us into the labyrinth where God lives. One must read her as one reads...
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Daniela Cascella - An archival fiction of listening, where landscape is...
Daniela Cascella, Singed: Muted voice-transmissions, after the fire, Equus Press, 2017.“It starts with no story but a circular / It starts with no story but a spinning / It starts with no story but a...
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Tony Duvert - a truly scandalous work, but first and foremost a work of great...
Tony Duvert, Odd Jobs, Trans. by S. C. Delaney and Agnès Potier, with an introduction, by S. C. Delaney. Wakefield Press, 2017.This series of twenty-three satirically scabrous short texts introduces...
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Oisín Curran - W. Bluebottle’s 24-hour romp through shifting times, places,...
Oisín Curran, Blood Fable, BookThug, 2017.Read an Excerpt: Open BookMaine, 1980. A utopian community is on the verge of collapse. The charismatic leader’s authority teeters as his followers come to...
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Mujie Li - Written in a prose-lyrical style, a structural experiment in which...
Mujie Li, Mirage Time, Dostoyevski Wannabe, 2017."Mirage Time starts another language in the midst of English. It is one whose vocabulary is intricate and subtle, emphasising sensual intensity of...
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Kristjana Gunnars - an uncommon book that defies traditional rules of style...
Kristjana Gunnars, Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust, Red Deer Press, 2002.Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. Combining the genres of fiction, memoir, the familiar essay and theoretical speculation,...
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Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain -...
Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain, Ed. by Armen Avanessian and Anke Hennig, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic...
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New Juche - Within the structure of a sexually charged exotic travelogue, we...
New Juche, Mountainhead,Nine-Banded Books, 2017.newjuche.wordpress.com/‘The reader may be disgusted by my behaviour and its rubric, and feel that I am defiling the mountain like a piece of grit in your...
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Anna Kavan - The hallucination of one moment did not fit the reality of the...
Anna Kavan,Ice. Penguin, 2017. [1967.]redmood.com/kavan/akbooks.html‘One of the most mysterious of modern writers, Anna Kavan created a uniquely fascinating fictional world. Few contemporary novelists...
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Maia Dolphin-Krute - From the gothic networks of healthcare bureaucracy and...
Maia Dolphin-Krute, Visceral: Essays on Illness Not as Metaphor, Punctum Books, 2017.Read and Excerpt from Visceral Here!Memoirs about being sick are popular and everywhere and only ever contribute to...
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Jordan A. Rothacker - a clever Mobius strip narrative and an invitation to a...
My Shadow Book by Maawaam, ed. by Jordan A. Rothacker, Spaceboy Books, 2017.excerptwww.jordanrothacker.com/Percy Shelley once remarked, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”What if...
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Douglas Luman - Many of us know Marco Polo’s name and place in history, but...
Douglas Luman, The F Text, Inside the Castle, 2017.“Mapping the Silk Roads within us, Douglas Luman’s lapidary erasure of Marco Polo’s travels in their various literary iterations—from Rustichello da...
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Merlin Donald welcomes the computer, as well as other forms of electronic...
Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness, W. W. Norton, 2001.In this polemical work, Merlin Donald refutes the recent arguments of scientists and philosophers who have...
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Żanna Słoniowska - On the day of her death, her voice rang out, drowning many...
Żanna Słoniowska, The House with the Stained Glass Window, Trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. London, MacLehose Press, 2017.In 1989, Marianna, the beautiful star soprano at the Lviv opera, is shot dead in...
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Franz Fühmann - a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great...
Franz Fühmann, At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem, Trans. by Isabel Fargo Cole, Seagull Books, 2017.At the Burning Abyss is Franz Fühmann’s magnum opus—a gripping and profoundly...
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