Review of Contemporary Fiction

From The Mirror in the Well, by Micheline Aharonian MarcomFrom Prairie Style, by C.S. GiscombeFrom Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine, by Stanley CrawfordFrom The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Burton Pike)From Homage to Czerny: Studies in Virtuoso Technique, by Gert Jonke (translated by Jean M. Snook)From The One Marvelous Thing, by Rikki DucornetFrom The Bathroom, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (translated by Nancy Amphoux & Paul De Angelis)From Talking Out of School, by Kass FleisherFrom A Nest of Ninnies, by John Ashbery & James SchuylerFrom Pigeon Post, by Dumitru Tsepeneag (translated by Jane Kuntz)From Dust, by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (translated by Evgeny Pavlov)From Anonymous Celebrity, by Igncio de Loyola Brando (translated by Nelson H. Vieira)From Hoppla! 1 2 3, by Grard Gavarry (translated by Jane Kuntz)From News from the Empire, by Fernando del Paso (translated by Alfonso Gonzalez & Stella Clark)From Encounters with Samuel Beckett, by Charles Juliet (translated by Axel Nesme & Tracy Cooke)From Western, by Christine Montalbetti (translated by Betsy Wing)From Jerusalem, by Gonalo M. Tavares (translated by Anna Kushner)