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Inés Arredondo delves into the dark side of gendered desire. This masterful...
Inés Arredondo, Underground River and Other Stories, Trans. by Cynthia Steele, University of Nebraska Press, 1996.read it at Google BooksInés Arredondo (1928–1989) published just three slim volumes of...
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Laura Solórzano - her inner life is tumultuous, brimming with excitement...
Laura Solórzano, Lip Wolf, Trans. by Jen Hofer, Action Books, 2007.Readers beware. You are about to go into the lion’s den. […]There’s no room for nonsense: Solórzano seems to have no interest in...
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Julieta Campos - Brainy and beautifully rendered, her books investigate the...
Julieta Campos, Fear of Losing Eurydice, Trans. by Leland H. Chambers, Dalkey Archive Press, 1994. This lyrical novel by one of Mexico’s leading women writers explores both desire and the...
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Ever Dundas presents us with an iconic protagonist: a powerful imaginative...
Ever Dundas, Goblin, Saraband, 2017.Goblin is an oddball and an outcast. But she's also a dreamer, a bewitching raconteur, a tomboy adventurer whose spirit can never be crushed. Running feral in World...
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Ştefan Tiron - essays about exiting inter-dimensional portals or sacred...
Ştefan Tiron, Cosmic Drift & Temporal Divergence, Editura Global Media, 2016.independent.academia.edu/TironStefanCosmic Drift and Temporal Divergence 1: scavenger cosmologies (pdf)A collection of...
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Li He - Chinese Rimbaud from 9th century
Li He, The Collected Poems of Li He, New York Review Books, 2017.The definitive collection of works by one of the Tang Dynasty's most eccentric (and badly-behaved) poets, now back in print for the...
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Jeff Hilson - There's something wrong in every poem which is turned over and...
Jeff Hilson, Latanoprost Variations, Boiler House Press, 2017)LATANOPROST VARIATIONSJEFF HILSON’S COMMENTARY: On Latanoprost VariationsJEFF HILSON READING LATANOPROST VARIATIONS:...
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Edward Powys Mathers - a puzzle in the form of a novelette whose 100 pages...
EdwardPowys Mathers,Cain’s Jawbone – A Novel Problem, 1934.[The Torquemada Puzzle Book. A miscellany of original crosswords, acrostics … etc., & Cain’s Jawbone. A Torquemada mystery novel. Compiled...
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M. H. Benders - I have nothing against Mr Goldsmith, he is my American...
M. H. Benders, Stubbing out a Cigarette on a Nightingale, Vlak Publishers, 2014.Stubbing out a Cigarette on a Nightingale the conceptual, jovial, satirical workrecently published by VLAK editions...
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Damien Ober - Gore Vidal’s 'Burr' meets Neal Stephenson’s 'Snow Crash' in...
Damien Ober, Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America, Equus Press, 2014.excerpt1777. Colonial America. A year after uploading the Declaration of Independence, a mysterious internet plague has broken...
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Abolqasem Ferdowsi - This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic...
Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, Trans. by Dick Davis, Penguin Classics; Expanded ed., 2016.The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now...
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Charles Doyle - In material ranging from intimate narratives to social...
Charles Doyle, The Age of Cardboard and String, Faber & Faber, 2001.A number of poems in this collection by Charles Boyle take their cue from Stendhal, whose characteristic blend of artfulness and...
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Daniel Roy Connelly - Ian Fleming’s Bond meets the lyricism of Rimbaud in...
Daniel Roy Connelly, Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir, Little Island Press, 2017.danielroyconnelly.com/Ian Fleming’s Bond meets the lyricism of Rimbaud in this fast-paced, genre-defying debut,...
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Franziska zu Reventlow - With dry humour and a profound sense of the uncanny,...
Franziska zu Reventlow, The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe, Trans. by James J. Conway, Rixdorf Editions, 2017. [1917.]extracthere and here(pdf)In 1917, the world appears to be tilting on...
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Giorgio van Straten - These are the mythical books that were burnt, torn,...
Giorgio van Straten, In Search of Lost Books: The forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes, Simon Carnell and Erica Segre, Pushkin Press, 2017.This is a journey in search of the traces of eight...
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Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock - the most outrageous poet you’ve (probably)...
Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock, Strange Tales and Decadent Poems, Ed. by David Tibet, with an afterword by Tim d'Arch Smith,Strange Attractor, 2018.Described by W. B. Yeats as a “scholar, connoisseur,...
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Marjorie Worthington - Strange World follows two writers in their turbulent...
Marjorie Worthington, The Strange World of Willie Seabrook, Spurl Editions,Spurl, 2017.Excerpt on our blog / Excerpt on BerfroisThis is the somber, quietly stunning account of American author Marjorie...
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Henri Roorda - "Joyful pessimism." In this baleful, little-known treatise,...
Henri Roorda, My Suicide, Trans. by Eva Richter, Spurl, 2017.45 pages, free e-book in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI (Kindle) formats: http://spurleditions.com/my-suicideexcerptHenri Roorda – a Swiss anarchist,...
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Norman Levine, like no other writer, manages to convey, squarely, through...
Norman Levine, I Don't Want to Know Anyone Too Well, Biblioasis 2017.Norman Levine's stories, so spare and compassionate and elegant and funny, so touching, sad, fantastic and unforgettable, rank...
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Peter Sjöstedt-H navigates through subjects such as the sentience of cells,...
Peter Sjöstedt-H, Noumenautics: metaphysics – meta-ethics – psychedelics, Psychedelic Press UK, 2015.www.philosopher.eu/“Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-H’s Noumenautics traverses the mindscape of...
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