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American Book Review

*Infinity* by Gabriel Josipovici January/February 2013 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Drive-by Saviours* by Chris Benjamin July/August 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*What Ever Happened to Modernism* by Gabriel Josipovici Jan/Feb 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	The Interrogative Mood: A Novel by Padgett Powell November/December 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Diary of a Blood Donor* by Mati Unt January/February 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Mirror In The Well* by Micheline Aharonian Marcom March/April 2009 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Parson's Widow* by Marja-Liisa Vartio Volume 30, Number 1, November/December 2008 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Everything Passes* by Gabriel Josipovici January/February 2008 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner You can visit www.carcanet.co.uk to order Gabriel's book
Books in Canada Ceased publishing in 2008

*The Last Novel* by David Markson June 2008 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Book of Chameleons* by José Eduardo Agualusa January/February 2008 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	The Solzhenistyn Reader: New and Essential Writings 1947-2005 edited by Edward E. Ericson, Jr. and Daniel F. Mahoney December 2007 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*African Psycho* by Alain Mabanckou December 2007 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys and *Porius* by Morine Krissdóttir and John Cowper Powys November 2007 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Conversations with Professor Y* by Louis-Ferdinand C�line October 2007 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Double-Blind* by Michelle Butler Hallett October 2007 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife* by Sam Savage October 2007 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Die, Lady, Die* by Alejandro L�pez September 2007 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	The Voice of the Heart: The Workings of Mervyn Peake's Imagination by G. Peter Winnington September 2007 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame and *Oceans: An Illustrated Reference* by Mark Monmonier and Dorrik Stow respectively March 2007 Images courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Skipping Towards Armageddon: The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire by Michael Standaert January/February 2007 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*The Singer on the Shore: Essays 1991-2004* by Gabriel Josipovici November 2006 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner You can visit www.carcanet.co.uk to order Gabriel's book	*Siberia* by Nikolai Maslov November 2006 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels* by Giorgio Manganelli October 2006 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner You can visit www.mcphersonco.com to order this book in paperback	*Things in the Night* and *Hidden Camera* by Mati Unt and Zoran Zivkovic September 2006 Images courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Lunar Follies* by Gilbert Sorrentino May/June 2006 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*A Strange Commonplace* by Gilbert Sorrentino May/June 2006 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Over the Rainbow? Hardly: Collected Short Seizures* by Chandler Brossard April 2006 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973* by Harry Mathews January/Febuary 2006 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Going Down* by David Markson January/February 2006 Copyright © 2005 by David Markson from Going Down: A Novel. Reprinted by permission of the publisher Cover design by Gopa & Ted2	*Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time* by Michael Downing November 2005 Copyright © 2006 by Michael Downing from Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. Reprinted by permission of the publisher Cover design by Kimberly Glyder Design	Sebastian's Arrows: Letters and Mementoes of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca ed, trans., annotated by Christopher Maurer October 2005 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	**Ahole*** by Hilton Obenzinger September 2005 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Memories of My Melancholy Whores* by Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez September 2005 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Tribute to Saul Bellow* May 2005	*The End: Hamburg 1943* by Hans Erich Nossack March 2005 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Vanishing Point* by David Markson January/February 2005 Copyright © 2004 by David Markson from Vanishing Point: A Novel. Reprinted by permission of the publisher Cover design by Kimberly Glyder Design

*Right and Left* by Joseph Roth November 2004 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Fountain at the Center of the World* by Robert Newman September 2004 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Goldberg: Variations* by Gabriel Josipovici September 2004 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner You can visit www.carcanet.co.uk to order Gabriel's book	*Siegfried* by Harry Mulisch August 2004 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*The Moon in Its Flight* by Gilbert Sorrentino June/July 2004 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Tests of Time: Essays* by William H. Gass April/May 2004 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Dan Yack, Confessions of Dan Yack and *Gold* by Blaise Cendrars January/February 2004 Images courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Actress in the House* by Joseph McElroy January/Febuary 2004 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

P by Andrew Lewis Conn January/Febuary 2004 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Three Novellas* by Thomas Bernhard December 2003 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Dance of Geometry* by Brian Howell October 2003 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Ascension* by Steven Galloway September 2003 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Agapē* and The Rush for Second Place by William Gaddis April 2003 Images courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
Bookslut

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Back to Delphi* by Ioanna Karystiani translated by Konstantine Matsoukas Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
Canadian Notes & Queries

*So Much Love* by Rebecca Rosenblum Spring 2017	*Giving Up* by Mike Steeves October 2014	A by André Alexis Issue No. 90, Summer 2014 June Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
Canadian Stories

*Fish, Soap, and Bonds* by Larry Fondation Vol. 11, No. 64 Dec 2008/Jan 2009 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
Galleon

The Naturalist by Thom Conroy November 2016 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Tyler's Last by David Winner November 2016 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	The Strangers' Gallery by Paul Bowdring December 2014 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
The Literary Review

*Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!* by Zachary Tyler Vickers Spring 2017	*Bird* by Noy Holland June 2016 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Night Soul and Other Stories* by Joseph McElroy Spring 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Abyss of Human Illusion* by Gilbert Sorrentino Summer 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner Click to read full screen Go to online pages 152-157

*The Withdrawal Method* Review of The Withdrawal Method by Pasha Malla Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner Click to read full screen Go to online pages 210-212
Literary Review

*God, Hell, Sex and Tobacco* Review of Collaborators by Janet Kaufmann February 1989	*Spanish Fly By Night* Review of City of Marvels by Carlos Mendoza December 1988	*Unholy and not Innocent* Review of The Unholy Innocents: A Romance by Gilbert Adair October 1988
Midwest Book Review

*How I Became an Idiot* by Frederique Sarcy January 2014 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Then We Came to the End* by Joshua Ferris *Riding Toward Everywhere* by William T. Vollmann Images courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Valencia* by Michelle Tea July 2009 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Last Novel* by David Markson April 2009 An alternate version of the review that appeared in Books in Canada. See above for the printed version. Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

Fish, Soap, and Bonds by Larry Fondation April 2009 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Braindead Megaphone: Essays* by George Saunders April 2009 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Time at War* by Nicholas Mosley April 2009 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*O Street* by Corrina Wycoff April 2009 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
Music & Literature

*The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800* by Steven Moore September 2013 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
Numéro Cinq

*My Back Pages* by Steven Moore Spring 2017 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism by Daniel Green February 2017 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Novel Explosives* by Jim Gauer November 2016 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*So Much For That Winter* by Dorthe Nors June 2016 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner


*A General Theory of Oblivion* by José Eduardo Agualusa March 2016 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Matches* by S.D. Chrostowska January 2016 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Nobody Grew But the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis & William Gaddis: Expanded Edition by Joseph Tabbi and Steven Moore October 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Infinite Fictions: Essays on Literature and Theory* by David Winters July 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Interview with Sam Savage* May 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*My Struggle: Book Four* by Karl Ove Knausgaard May 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere by Georges Perec March 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*See You In Paradise* by J. Robert Lennon January 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*It Will End with Us* by Sam Savage November 2014 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
Open Letters Monthly

*Widow* by Michelle Latiolais June 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Cry of the Sloth* by Sam Savage September 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
The Powys Journal

*The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson* edited by Janet Fouli August 2010 Image courtesy of publisher; review posted courtesy of The Powys Journal
Quarter After Eight

Volume 16, 2010	*Novel in Three Lines* Félix Fénéon Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

Volume 15, February 2009	*Monsieur* Jean-Phillipe Toussaint Dalkey Archive Press, 2008, 102 pp., $12.95, paperback, mixed genre Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Camera* Jean-Phillipe Toussaint Dalkey Archive Press, 2008, 120 pp., $12.95, from the uncorrected galleys, mixed genre. Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles* Jeff Martin Soft Skull Press, 2008, 172 pp., $12.95, paperback, nonfiction.

Volume 9, March 2003	*The Corrections* Jonathan Franzen NY: Picador USA, 2002, 592 pp., $15.00, paperback, fiction. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. ©	*The Persian Bride* James Buchan Boston: Mariner, 1999, 343 pp., paperback, fiction.	*House of Leaves* Mark Z. Danielewski London: Pantheon, 2002, 709 pp., paperback, fiction. Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
The Quarterly Conversation

*Movieola!* by John Domini March 2017 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Dinner* by César Aira September 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Life Embitters* by Josep Pla June 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*[[there.]]* by Lance Olsen December 2014 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*[SIC]* by Davis Schneiderman March 2014	*Let the Dark Flower Blossom* by Nora Labiner September 2013 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*My Struggle* by Karl Ove Knausgaard December 2012 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Big Dream* by Rebecca Rosenblum June 2012 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*The Truth About Marie* by Jean-Philippe Toussaint December 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Slut Lullabies* by Gina Frangellow March 2011	*The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600* by Steven Moore 5 September 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*William Gaddis, "The Last of Something": Critical Essays* Review of William Gaddis, "The Last of Something": Critical Essays eds. Crystal Alberts, Christopher Leise and Birger Vanwesenbeeck Issue 19, Spring 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Amazing Adult Fantasy* by A.D. Jameson September 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*After & Making Mistakes* by Gabriel Josipovici 22 March 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
Rain Taxi

*One of Us is Sleeping* by Josefine Klougart Spring 2017	*Marketa Lazarová* by Vladislav Vančura February 2017 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*I Remember* Translated by Georges Perec	*Chris Eaton, A Biography* by Chris Eaton Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books Edited by Leah Price Spring 2012 online issue Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Sweetest Thing* by Mischa Merz March 2012 print issue	*And Also Sharks* by Jessica Westhead Fall 2011 online issue Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Dinosaurs* by Steve Brusatte and Michael Benton December-January 2010-2011 online issue Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*William T. Vollmann: A Critical Study and Seven Interviews* by Michael Hemmingson Originally appeared in Rain Taxi Online Edition Spring 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Conversations with Julian Barnes* ed. by Vanessa Guignery and Ryan Roberts Originally appeared in Rain Taxi Online Edition Spring 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Bridge of the Golden Horn* by Emine Sevgi Özdamar translated by Martin Chalmers Originally appeared in Rain Taxi Online Edition Winter 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Waste* by Eugene Marten Fall 2009 online issue Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Unintended Consequences* by Larry Fondation Originally appeared in Rain Taxi Vol.14, No.2, Summer 2009 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Night Work* by Thomas Glavinic (Review appears in spring print edition. Click on the novel cover for a pdf of the review.) Images courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	The Soul and Barbed Wire: An Introduction to Solzhenitsyn by Edward Ericson, Jr. and Alexis Klimoff (Review appears in spring online edition. Click here for the URL or here for a pdf version.) Images courtesy of publisher, copyright owner A mediocre and flawed review of The Soul and Barbed Wire in Bookforum by Keith Gessen, found here, prompted me to write a letter, which was published here, along with Gessen's response. His answer was unsatisfactory, so I wrote another letter, published for the first time here.	*Sheer Fiction IV* by Paul West Winter 2008/2009 online issue Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman* by David Goodway Fall 2008 online issue Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*My Father's Wives* by José Eduardo Agualusa translated by Daniel Hahn Winter 2008/2009 online issue Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
Requited

Glass by Sam Savage Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Pieces for the Left Hand by J. Robert Lennons Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

Review of Contemporary Fiction

My Struggle Book Two: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard August 2013 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of Glorious Nemesis by Ladislav Klima Trans. Marek Tomin April 2013 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of In Red by Magdalena Tulli Spring 2012 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of Paths to Contemporary French Literature, Volume 3 by John Taylor Fall 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

Review of Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk Summer 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of Call Me Ahab by Anne Finger Spring 2010 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of Kissed By by Alexandra Chasin Summer 2008 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of Colonel Zoo by Oliver Cadiot Summer 2006 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

Review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Spring 2006	Review of Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books and The Believer's Book of Writers Talking to Writers by, respectively, Donna Seaman and Vendela Vida, ed. Spring 2006 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of Gold by Blaise Cendrars Summer 2005 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars Spring 2005 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

Review of P by Andrew Lewis Conn Spring 2004 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of Witch Grass and *We Always Treat Women Too Well* by Raymond Queneau Fall 2003 reprinted in CONTEXT #15 Spring 2004 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of To the End of the World by Blaise Cendrars Spring 2003, reprinted in CONTEXT #13 Spring 2003 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	Review of Selected Works of Cesare Pavese by Cesare Pavese trans. and intro. R.W. Flint Summer 2002 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
The Winnipeg Review

*Not One Day* by Anne Garréta September 2017 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Chronicle of the Murdered House* by Lúcio Cardoso Summer 2017 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Compartment No. 6* by Rosa Liksom January 2017 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Story of Love in Solitude* by Roger Lewinter September 2016 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*The Space of Writing* by Stephen Mitchelmore July 2016	*Discomfort* by Evelyn Hampton April 2016 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Urgency and Patience* by Jean-Philippe Toussaint January 2016 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*How I Became an Idiot* by Francisque Sarcey September 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Newspaper* by Edouard Lev� July 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Martyrs and Holymen* by Larry Fondation April 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson* January 2015 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Sea-God's Herb* by John Domini December 2014 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume One: Christine Brooke-Rose* October 2014 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Bill For Palma Vecchio, at Venice* by László Krasznahorkai July 2014 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Permission* by S.D. Chrostowska April 2014 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Shantytown* by César Aira March 2014

*The Book of Delores* by William T. Vollmann February 2014 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Short Fall* by Marek Waldorf January 2014 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Letters of William Gaddis* Ed. by Steven Moore June 2013 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement by Lauren Elkin and Scott Esposito June 2013 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*The Way of the Dog* by Sam Savage March 2013 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Familiar* by J. Robert Leonard January 2013 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Docufictions: Journal of Experimental Fiction* by Harold Jaffe November 2012 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*A Struggle for Life: Selected Essays of Llewelyn Powys* Edited by Anthony Head August 2012 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*Reticence* by Jean-Philippe Toussaint May 2012 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature* by Herb Wylie March 2012 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Is That A Fish In Your Ear?* by David Bellos Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am* by Kjersti A. Skomsvold September 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*The Accident* by Mihail Sebastian July 2011	*Only Joking* by Gabriel Josipovici April 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*My Prizes: An Accounting* by Thomas Bernhard February 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Brecht at Night* by Mati Unt Translation by Eric Dickens January 2011 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner


*The Country Where No One Ever Dies* by Ornela Vorpsi Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner
Amazon.com Reviews

*The Enchanted House* by Beth E. Janzen "Room for everyone" September 11, 2007 Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Tests of Time: Essays* by William Gass "Not much of an essay writer" May 13, 2004 [See BiC for a lengthy review of this book] Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner	*Memed My Hawk* by Yashar Kemal "Sturdy but it doesn't involve one" December 25, 2001	*The First World War* by Ivan Klima "A servicable work" December 13, 2001

*My Golden Trades* by Ivan Klima "A light touch" December 13, 2001	*Women of Sand and Myrrh: A novel* by Hanan Al-Shaykh "Parched" November 24, 2001	*The Persian Bride* by James Buchan "Poetic, hard-edged and timely" November 6, 2001 [see "Three Reviews" for another review of this book]	*The Corrections* by Jonathan Franzen "A tight fit" October 30, 2001 [see "Three Reviews" for another review of this book] The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. ©

*Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer* by Paul Edwards "A clear gaze on a murky fellow" October 28, 2001	Legally Speaking: Contemporary American Culture and the Law by Helle Porsdam "A persuasive case" April 3, 2001	*The Intuitionist: A Novel* by Colson Whitehead "An underwhelming novel" March 14, 2001	*November 1916: The Red Wheel/Knot II* by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn "Hunting for history with a big net" December 9, 2000

*Petrushka and the Dancer: the Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939* by John Cowper Powys "Not just another english eccentric" December 2, 2000	*Rude Assignment* by Wyndham Lewis "Look into the shadows" November 30, 2000	*Diaries: 1899-1941* by Robert Musil "The penetrating mind of Robert Musil" November 27, 2000	*Moravagine* by Blaise Cendrars "Sickness unto death" September 19, 2000 [see RCF for another review of this book] Image courtesy of publisher, copyright owner

*"Since at Least Plato...": And Other Postmodernist Myths* by M.J. Devaney "Passion and intelligence combined" June 9, 2000	*Vast Alchemies* by G. Peter Winnington "The mind and art behind the 'Titus' books" May 29, 2000

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