44 stories by "John Taylor"
Sometimes called the "Turkish Balzac" and, more often, the "Turkish Chekhov," Sait Faik actually had a literary vision all his own.
Tsvetanka Elenkova is one of the key figures in contemporary Bulgarian poetry.
Very little happens in Dominique Fabre's books, yet one keeps on reading. because he so genuinely depicts the ordinary lives that most of us lead.
Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire imply that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.
The success of this short novel set in Japan lies in the empathy it creates for a pair of ordinary and lonely characters.
Philippe Rahmy is afflicted with brittle-bone disease: in his superb writing, he takes off from his incurable inherited condition and ventures out courageously.
The prose of Patrick Modiano, this year's Nobel prizewinner, has a distinctive French style whose directness and grammatical limpidity by no means exclude semantic depth and complexity.
A compelling chronicle of the life of the notorious Russian writer and political activist Eduard Limonov.
Although Street of Thieves is less accomplished than Zone, it once again displays how Matthias Énard is seeking new ways to bring political issues into precise, often gripping prose.
André du Bouchet writes the kind of poetry that other poets ponder, perhaps resist or even reject for a while, yet inevitably return to study even if (or because) their own poetics are star…
Ready to Burst is a compelling, intricately structured story told in resourceful, oft-poetic language by a influential Haitian poet and novelist.
Privy Portrait portrays a contemporary human being who has lost all handholds, all footholds, all practical, moral, and metaphysical support"except for that provided by the articles of his b…
Because of the national tension between the Tutsis and the Hutus, and its effects on everyday routines in the school, this novel cannot long remain a bemusing tale of adolescent life.
IGellu Naum does not use the heterogeneous juxtapositions of surrealism to create something jocular, absurd, prankish, or gratuitously paradoxical, but to fashion a new kind of symbolic orde…
Eschewing harrowing realistic description, Jean Echenoz adopts a jocular sardonic approach to the most gruesome battlefield realities.
"On Leave" is a worthwhile novel that deserves this English revival because it convincingly conveys the alienation felt by soldiers who return home on a brief leave from hostilities taking p…
The books are bleak in that Pierre Michon provides no reassuring, idealistic view of the creative urge. Art leads to no transcendence, no permanent uplifting sentiment. Making poems or makin…
French writer Philippe Jaccottet's ever-questioning poetic analyses of haunting ephemeral perceptions are carried on with such scruple and sincerity that, for his European peers, he has beco…
Pierre Reverdy's poetry that is suspicious of the deceiving beauty of words, hence its pared-down, elemental, stylistic qualities.
