Europeana, &c.
Volume 27, Number 1
November-December 2005
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Andrew Ervin’s “Introduction to Focus”
Ben Greenman reviews Patrik Ouředník’s Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
Selah Saterstrom reviews Vítĕzslav Nezval’s Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Sheila Heti reviews Tibor Déry’s Love and Other Stories
Elizabeth Searle reviews András Pályi’s Out of Oneself
Andrew Crumey reviews Alan Cherchesov’s Requiem for the Living
Neal Pollack reviews Yuri Rytkheu’s A Dream in Polar Fog
Soren A. Gauger reviews Magdalena Tulli’s Moving Parts
Feature: Fiction on the Edge
Leora Lev reviews Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts
Davis Schneiderman reviews Lance Olsen’s 10:01
Feature: Mythic Encounters
John Domini reviews Giorgio Manganelli’s Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels
Dave Stevens reviews Rich Shapero’s Wild Animus
Book Reviews
Michael Theune reviews Ed. Reginald Shepherd’s The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries
Christopher Coake reviews Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down
Paula Koneazny reviews Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Anthony Cuda reviews Richard Wilbur’s Collected Poems: 1943-2004
Paul Oppenheimer reviews D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island
Charles Marowitz reviews Harry G. Frankfurt’s On Bullshit
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Claire Malroux’s Birds and Bison
Hadara Bar-Nadav reviews Mary Jo Bang’s The Eye Like a Strange Balloon
Warren Woessner review Xue Di’s Another Kind of Tenderness
Kevin Prufer reviews Blas Manuel De Luna’s Bent to the Earth
Rochelle Ratner reviews Maggie Nelson’s Jane: A Murder
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
