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Voices from Chernobyl
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching …
I'm an Old Commie!
Emilia, a pensioner in northern Romania, is forced to confront the nostalgic illusions she nurtures as a reaction to the grim post-communist present when her daughter, now living …
Morning and Evening
A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. …
Energy of Delusion
One of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of what Ross Chambers calls “loiterature”—writing that roams, playfully …
No One Writes Back
Communication--or the lack thereof--is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque.
Richard Powers/Rikki Ducornet, Vol. 18, No. 3
Jim Neilson, Dirtying Our Hands: An Introduction to the Fiction of Richard Powers/Jim Neilson, An Interview with Richard Powers/James Hurt, Narrative Powers: Richard Powers as …
Juan the Landless
Juan Goytisolo's radical revision of his masterpiece Juan the Landless is the starting-point for this new translation by renowned translator Peter Bush. The new text focuses on …
Before Brezhnev Died
The time is the twilight of the decrepit Brezhnev regime, the place, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia: the “Latin periphery of empire.” A pensioner seeks justice for his …
Heartsnatcher
Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of making it rain, and the official …
Aliss at the Fire
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on …
Assisted Living
The Marquis de Sade is alive and well and living in Sweden—or perhaps author Nikanor Teratologen is the devil himself, sending the English-speaking world a Scandinavian squib to …