Like the LA-based poet and author, protagonist Sean is an ex-journalist who works in a bookstore

Like the LA-based poet and author, protagonist Sean is an ex-journalist who works in a bookstore

Full of misery, and peopled by characters unable to distinguish their true desires, Viola van de Sandt’s debut novel makes for uneasy reading

For the Belgian author Jacques Sternberg, attributions of genre were insults. Once heralded as “the best hope for French science fiction”, he proceeded to

In the title story of Diabelli – a collection of short fiction by the Swiss writer Hermann Burger (1942–89), first published in 1979 – a washed-up

Boxcar Bertha reflects a lost mode of living. It pays tribute to "the world of careless living detached from the rest of the world." Bertha had no formal education. Her mother was a hobo, drifting thr...

Under the right eyes, everything that Torres touches turns to gold.

Levrero rewards his characters for having faith in false starts, knowing that certain times are conducive to certain events.

Now relegated to obscurity, Else Jerusalem’s novel Der Heilige Skarabäus, fully translated into English for the first time as Red House Alley,