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ANNUAL INDEX | 149 Books Reviewed Reviewers’ names follow in parentheses. Regular reviewers are abbreviated: TF=Tim Feeney; IM=Irving Malin; MP=Michael Pinker. Amado, Jorge. Tent of Miracles, Reader’s Guide, 2: 126-27 1: 143-44 (Sophia A. (Robert L. McLaughlin) McClennen) Carey, Peter. My Life as a Fake, Bakin, Dmitry. Reasons for Liv- 1: 146—47 (IM) ing, 1: 160 (Joanna Howard) Chassay, Jean-Francois. Baricco, Alessandro. Without L’Angle mort [Blind Spotl], 2: Blood, 2: 147 (Brian 130-31 (Warren Motte) Budzynski) Conn, Andrew Lewis. P, 1: 153- Barth, John. The Book of Ten 54 (Jeff Bursey) Nights and a Night: Eleven Crace, Jim. Genesis, 2: 144 Stories, 2: 128—29 (Robert L. (Thomas Hove) McLaughlin) Davenport, Guy. The Death of Bénabou, Marcel. L’Appentis Picasso: New & Selected revisité, 1: 141-42 (Warren Writing, 2: 136 (Adam Jones) Motte) de la Mare, Walter. Memoirs of ——. To Write on Tamara?, 3: a Midget, 2: 149 (Eckhard 133 (Chad W. Post) Gerdes) Berger, Thomas. Adventures of Derby, Matthew. Super Flat the Artificial Woman, 2: 134 Times, 2: 146-47 (Joanna (Zulfikar Ghose) Howard) Bioy Casares, Adolfo. The In- Druzhnikov, Yuri. Angels on the vention of Morel, 2: 146 Head of a Pin, 1: 139 (MP) (Mark Axelrod) Dydo, Ulla E., with William Blackstone, Charles. The Week Rice. Gertrude Stein: The You Weren’t Here, 2: 145 Language that Rises: 1923- (Alan Tinkler) 1934, 1: 162-64 (Richard J. Bok, Christian, ed. Ground Murphy) Works: Avant-Garde for Thee, Eisenstein, Sam. Cosmic Cow, 1: 159-60 (Dirk Van Hulle) 2: 134-35 (Joseph Dewey) Bolano, Robert. By Night in Esterhazy, Peter. Celestial Har- Chile, 1: 158-59 (Chad W. monies, 3: 132-33 (James Post) Crossley) Boswell, Marshall. Understand- Evenson, Brian. The Wavering ing David Foster Wallace, 2: Knife, 2: 139 (Brooke Nelson) 126-27 (Robert L. Everett, Percivel, and James McLaughlin) Kincaid. A History of the Burn, Stephen. David Foster African-American People Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”: A [Proposed] by Strom 150 REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION Thurmond, as told to Percival Friends Are Superheroes, 2: Everett & James Kincaid, 2: 145-46 (Stacey Gottlieb) 148 (Trey Strecker) Kauffman, Janet. Five on Fic- Fishman, Boris, ed. Wild East: tion, 2: 142 (Brian Evenson) Stories from the Last Fron- Knonov, Mikhail. The Naked tier, 2: 140 (MP) Pioneer Girl, 2: 137 (MP Gaddis. Fiction Jones, 1: 164 (TF) Kohler, Sheila. Stories from Gibson, Graeme. Five Legs, 2: Another World, 2: 142 (IM) 130 (Robert Buckeye) Laurence, Patricia. Lily Gladman, Renee. The Activist, Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes, 3: 1: 151 (Danielle Dutton) 136-37 (Richard J. Murphy) Gorodischer, Angélica. Kalpa Laxness Haldér. Iceland’s Bell, Imperial: The Greatest Em- 3: 130-31 (Tayt Harlin) pire that Never Was, 1: 147 Le Guin, Ursula K. Changing (John W. Fail) Planes, 2: 132-33 (David Gray, Alasdair. The Ends of Our Seed) Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories, 2: ——. The Wave in the Mind: 127-28 (Stephen Bernstein) Talks and Essays on the Hamsun, Knut. The Last Joy, 1: Writer, the Reader, and the 155-56 (Trey Strecker) Imagination, 2: 132-33 Harris, Wilson. The Mask of the (David Seed) Beggar, 1: 144-45 (Zulfikar Markson, David. Vanishing Ghose) Point, 2: 131-32 (IM) Hejinian, Lyn. The Fatalist, 1: McCourt, James. Queer Street: 145 (Martin Riker) Rise and Fall ofa n American Herling, Gustaw. The Noonday Culture, 1947-1985: Cemetary and Other Stories, Excusrions in the Mind of 1: 154—55 (Alan Tinkler) the Life, 1: 162 (IM) Hoban, Russell. Her Name Was Melo, Joao de. My World Is Not Lola, 3: 134—35 (IM) of This Kingdom, 1: 153 Hoffmann, Yoel. The Shunra (James Crossley) and the Schmetterling, 2: 133 Mesler, Corey. Talk: A Novel in (Leslie Cohen) Dialogue, 1: 161-62 (Ralph Hudik, Pavol, ed. In Search of Clare) Homo Sapiens: Twenty-Five Meyer, Steven. Irresistible Dic- Contemporary Slovak Short tation: Gertrude Stein and Stories, 1: 160-61 (MP) the Correlations of Writing Hunt, Laird. Indiana, Indiana, and Science, 1: 162—64 (Rich- 1: 150 (Jeffrey DeShell) ard J. Murphy) Isegawa, Moses. Snakepit, 2: Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas, 3: 141 (Valérie Orlando) 133-34 (Richard J. Murphy) Jergovi¢, Miljenko. Sarajevo Mulisch, Harry. Siegfried, 1: Marlboro, 2: 138-39 (Laird 156 (Jason Picone) Hunt) Murnane, Gerald. The Plains, Kaufman, Andrew. All My 2: 138 (Nicholas Birns) ANNUAL INDEX | 151 Padilla, Ignacio. Antipodes, 3: Trouillot, Lyonel. Street of Lost 131 (Chad W. Post) Footsteps, 1: 156-57 (Nicho- Page, Ra, ed. Comma, 2: 148-49 las Birns) (Mark Tursi) VanderMeer, Jeff, and Mark Papaditsas, Alexandra, and Roberts, eds. The Thackery T. Kent Johnson. The Miseries Lambsheas Pocket Guide to of Poetry: Traductions from Eccentric & Discredited Dis- the Greek, 1: 142—43 (Lucas eases, 1: 145—46 (Steve Klein) Tomasula) Pekic, Borislav. How to Quiet a Vaughan, Dai. Totes Meer, 2: Vampire, 3: 135 (MP) 143 (Sarah Bruton) Scalapino, Leslie. Dhalias Iris: Vesaas, Tarjei. The Boat in the Secret Autobiography and Evening, 3: 129-30 (Neil Fiction, 1: 140-41 (Joseph Murphy) Dewey) Vian, Boris. Foam of the Daze, Schoemperlen, Diane. Red 2: 127 (Thomas Hove) Plaid Shirt, 2: 136—37 (Pedro Vizenor, Gerald. Hiroshima Ponce) Bugi: Atomu 57, 1: 148 (Tho- Schutt, Christine. Florida, 1: mas Hove) 149 (Brian Evenson) Walker, Nick. Blackbox: A Scliar, Moacyr. The Centaur in Novel in 840 Chapters, 3: the Garden, 1: 157—58 (Mark 135-36 (TF) Axelrod) Wallace, David Foster. Shaogong, Han. A Dictionary of Oblivion, 2: 125-26 (TF) Magiao, 1: 139-40 (Jeffrey Wiebe, Dallas. The Vox Populi Twitchell-Waas) Street Stories, 1: 158 (Susan Sorrentino, Gilbert. The Moon Smith Nash) in Its Flight, 3: 129 (Martin Willett, Jincy. Winner of the Riker) National Book Award, 1: 152 Stapleton, Lara, and Veronica (TF) Gonzalez, eds. Juncture: 25 Xiangjian, Gao. Buying a Fish- Very Good Stories and 12 ing Rod for My Grandfather, Excellent Drawings, 1: 150- 3: 131-32 (Jason Picone) 51 (Aaron Gwyn) Zimmerman, Aaron. By the Synopsis, Q. Johnny Werd: The Time You Finish This Book Fire Continues, 1: 148—49 You Might Be Dead: Chang- (Joseph Dewey) ing and Improving Your Life Taylor, John. Paths to Contem- through CUTLAS by Eliot porary French Literature, 2: Greebee, 1: 152—53 (Matthew 149-50 (Warren Motte) L. McAlpin) Tomasula, Steve. In & Oz, 2: Zivkovié, Zoran. The Book / 143-44 (Michael The Writer, 2: 129-30 (Scott Hemmingson) Bryan Wilson) Toutonghi, Pauls. Live Cargo, 2: ——. The Fourth Circle, 2: 129-— 140-41 (Robert Buckeye) 30 (Scott Bryan Wilson)