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Steve Weiner - a nightmarish, hallucinogenic quest novel. It crackles with a...
Steve Weiner, The Museum of Love, Harry N. Abrams, 1995.read it at Google Books This story traces the journey of a young French Canadian across the top of North America. It is a darkly magical world...
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Laura Hyunjhee Kim - Fueled by the speculative ideology of blobs as both a...
Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs, Accomplices LLC, 2019. excerptA blob is a raw amorphous form A blob is a potentiality A blob is an indeterminate destination A blob is a...
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Elizabeth A. I. Powell - This visionary and innovative novel explores the...
Elizabeth A. I. Powell, Concerning the Holy Ghost’s Interpretation of JCrew Catalogues, Leaky Boat Press, 2019.elizabethpowellpoetry.wordpress.com/This visionary and innovative novel explores the...
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Paal-Helge Haugen - Permeated with darkness, 'Anne' is a strange and...
Paal-Helge Haugen, Anne: A Novel, Trans. Julia Johanne Tolo,Hanging Loose Press, 2019.excerptmore excerpts“One of the most exciting books from Scandinavia that I’ve read in recent years. Permeated with...
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Hugh Fulham-McQuillan examines the aesthetics of murder, the reigning...
Hugh Fulham-McQuillan, Notes on Jackson and His Dead, Dalkey Archive Press, 2019.excerptIn this collection of eighteen stories, Hugh Fulham-McQuillan writes with the playfulness and intelligence of...
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Jacques-Antoine Révéroni Baron de Saint-Cyr - a minor classic of the French...
Jacques-Antoine Révéroni Baron de Saint-Cyr, Pauliska, or Modern Perversity, Trans. by Erik Butler, Tartarus Press, 2018. [1798.]This is the first English translation of Révéroni de Saint-Cyr’s...
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Amanda Berenguer - In her poetry, desire is so grand and ubiquitous that it...
Amanda Berenguer, Materia Prima, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019. Materia Prima is the first English-language collection of Amanda Berenguer's poetry. A key contributor to Uruguay's famed literary...
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Philomena van Rijswijk - a strange and satirical narrative, a mythological...
Philomena van Rijswijk,House of the Flight-helpers, Tartarus Press, 2019.www.taswriters.org/writers/philomena-van-rijswijk/This brilliant new dystopian novel is a strange and satirical narrative, a...
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Chantal Akerman - While addressing universal experiences–the pain found woven...
Chantal Akerman, My Mother Laughs, Trans. by Corina Copp, The Song Cave, 2019.And there were other girls who were odd ones too and that was how it was. We loved each other and that was that. I was 18...
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Gine Cornelia Pedersen - 'Zero' can be perceived as a deafening, desperate...
Gine Cornelia Pedersen, Zero, Trans. by Rosie Hedger, Nordisk Books, 2018.Gine Cornelia Pedersen's dbut novel won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award in its native Norway upon publication....
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Raoul Schrott - Fictional, but not a conventional novel, essayistic, but...
Raoul Schrott, The Sex of the Angels, the Saints in their Heaven: A Breviary, Trans. by Karen Leeder, Seagull Books, 2019. [2001.]Breviaries, books of standard religious readings for particular...
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Birgit Vanderbeke depicts the deterioration of a family in slow motion. She...
Birgit Vanderbeke, The Mussel Feast,Trans. by Jamie Bulloch. Peirene Press, 2013.The modern German classic that has shaped an entire generation.A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner...
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Daniel James - Fiction is the real truth. The whole noir-ish tale is pulled...
Daniel James, The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas, Dead Ink, 2018.https://www.danieljameswriter.com/Compelling and suspenseful, The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas is the story of a journalist...
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EUROPOE - Groundbreaking poetry by sixty of Europe’s most original poets,...
EUROPOE: an anthology of contemporary European Poetry, ed. by SJ Fowler, Kingston University Press, 2019.EUROPOE : Groundbreaking poetry by sixty of Europe’s most original poets, translated into...
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Christine Wunnicke spoofs the misogynist history of psychology in this clever...
Christine Wunnicke, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura, Trans. by Philip Boehm, New Directions, 2019.ExcerptA delicious mix of East and West, of wonder and irony, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura is a most curious...
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Lima Barreto - A deftly satirical masterpiece about a man and a country...
Lima Barreto, The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma, Trans. by Mark Carlyon,Penguin Classics, 2015.A deftly satirical masterpiece about a man and a country caught in a violent clash between sanity and...
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David Goudreault - our anti-hero, is a particularly unpleasant character for...
David Goudreault, Mamma’s Boy, Trans. by JC Sutcliffe, Book*hug, 2018.Read an Excerpt: Open BookWinner of the 2016 Grand Prix littéraire ArchambaultMy mother was always committing suicide. She started...
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Teresa Wilms Montt responds to death, incorporating Catholic, pagan, and...
Teresa Wilms Montt, In the Stillness of Marble, Trans. by Jessica Sequeira, Snuggly Books, 2019. [1918.]Originally published in Spain in 1918, and here translated into English for the first time by...
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Jamie Marina Lau - presents a surreal, electronic parable that sweeps us...
Jamie Marina Lau, Pink Mountain on Locust Island, Brow Books, 2018.An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Embracing the noir tradition and...
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Kimberly Campanello - a 796-page ‘report’ comprising conceptual and visual...
Kimberly Campanello, MOTHERBABYHOME, Zimzalla, 2019.www.kimberlycampanello.com/motherbabyhomeThe St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home was run by the Bon Secours Sisters on behalf of the Irish State to house...
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