Rupert Thomson Knopf ($23) by Matthew Cheney The title is not a spoiler, nor is it a tease. Rather, like the title of Rupert Thomson’s previous novel, Divided Kingdom, it declares a matter of fact, behind which storylines sprout, self-delusions fester, and interpretations tangle with ambiguities; the reader is encouraged to think up questions of ethics, […]

PEPPER SPRAY Paul Martínez Pompa Momotombo Press THE NIGHT TITO TRINIDAD KO’ED RICARDO MAYORGA Kevin A. González Momotombo Press by Craig Santos Perez Momotombo Press, which focuses primarily on emerging Latino/a writers, is named after a volcano on the shores of Lago Managua, in Nicaragua. Pepper Spray, by Paul Martínez Pompa, and The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed […]

Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry ECW Press ($15.95) by Holly Dupej Designed by Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry, Apostrophe offers an absorbing, almost hypnotic, expanse of found sentences from the Internet, all of which begin with “you are.” The sentences were selected and assembled by an automated computer program created by the authors for this purpose. The […]

Attila József translated by Michael Castro and Gabor G. Gyukics Green Integer ($12.95) by John Bradley “Whoever is born to a mother is betrayed in the end,” writes Attila József, the legendary Hungarian poet, in his poem “Late Lamenting.” József had much to lament. His father died when he was three, his mother when he […]

Interview by Wipanan Chaichanta Born in England and educated at Warwick University, John Burdett practiced law in England and Hong Kong before deciding on a career in writing. After honing his narrative chops with the intriguing thrillers A Personal History of Thirst and The Last Six Million Seconds, he went on to write three arresting novels […]

Interview by Leonard Schwartz Michael Hardt, with Antonio Negri, is the author of Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000), which Fredrick Jameson has called “both a critique of a wide variety of contemporary theory and a prophetic call for energies to come,” and Multitude (Penguin Press, 2004), which moved the earlier theoretical discourse into a more ordinary language […]