in lieu of a field guide

The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira by César Aira, translated by Katherine Silver (New Directions, 2012) César Aira is flooding the market w...

This is an expanded version of a previous post. Po-on (1984, also published as Dusk ) is the first chronological part of Filipino novel...

The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes (New Directions, 2000) It was said that modern Maya...

Desert by J. M. G. Le Clézio, translated by C. Dickson (David R. Godine, 2009) Displacement, exile, refugee crossing, ethnic cleansing...

Thousand Cranes by Kawabata Yasunari, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker (Perigee, 1981) When Kikuji's father died it seemed he ...

PseudoAbsurdoKapritsoUlo by Ronaldo Vivo Jr., Danell Arquero, Erwin Dayrit, Ronnel Vivo, and Christian De Jesus (UNGAZPress Issue 1, Novem...

3 Strange Tales by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, translated by Glenn Anderson ( One Peace Books , 2012) I met the couple yesterday, a little pas...

"My Prizes", translated by Carol Brown Janeway, in Gathering Evidence and My Prizes by Thomas Bernhard (Vintage International, ...

The Devil's Causeway: The True Story of America's First Prisoners of War in the Philippines, and the Heroic Expedition Sent to Thei...

The Gold in Makiling (1947) by Macario Pineda, translated and with an introduction by Soledad S. Reyes (Anvil, 2012) The Gold in Makil...

I thought I'd never hear the brave librarian speak. Posterity saved the lectures that Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) delivered in Harv...