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Told almost exclusively through dialogue, Konfidenz opens with a woman entering a hotel room and receiving a call from a mysterious stranger who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she has fled her homeland. Over the next nine hours he tells her many disturbing things about her lover (who may be in great danger), the political situation in which they are enmeshed, and his fantasies of her. A terse political allegory that challenges our assumptions about character, the foundations of our knowledge, and the making of history, Konfidenz draws the reader into a postmodern mystery where nothing--including the text itself--is what it seems. First published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1995), most recent paperback Vintage (1998).

Dedicated to the discussion and celebration of innovative fiction, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has featured the most influential authors of the twentieth century for over twenty years.This summer, with the issue on New Japanese Fiction, RCF will return to featuring interesting new fiction from around the world. This issue builds on a tradition in place since the origin of RCF, and has included publication of issues devoted to: New Italian Fiction (156478-121-6), New Danish Fiction (1-56478-127-5), New Finnish Fiction (1-56478-098-8) and New Latvian Fiction (1-56478-178-X).The fall issue highlights the new format for RCF, featuring long essays on two to four authors that provide both an introduction to their fiction and interpretative strategies for reading their work. For a complete list of recent issues.In addition, each issue features an extensive book review section, focused on contemporary fiction that is generally not reviewed by the mainstream media.

-- Over the course of a single afternoon, Macho Camacho's hit song 'Life Is A Phenomenal Thing' blares out of every radio in San Juan and connects the lives of Senator Vicente Reinosa, his poor mistress, his neurotic, aristocratic wife and his fascist son. Full of puns, fantastic wordplay, advertising slogans, and pop-culture references, Macho Camacho's Beat is a grimly funny satire on the "Americanization" of Puerto Rico.-- One of Puerto Rico's outstanding literary figures, Luis Rafael Sanchez is renowned for his plays, short stories, essays and poems, as well as his novels. He currently teaches at the University of Puerto Rico.-- First published in the U.S. by Random House (1980), most recent paperback by Avon (1982).

Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada - the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in 73 AD. A dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art and the world around him in several different ways at once.

David Bellos, Introduction: The Book of Bachelors by Philip Terry/Philip Terry, The Book of Bachelors/Philip Terry, Afterword

One morning in 1949, Fan Fanych, alias Etcetera, is summoned from his Moscow apartment to KGB headquarters, where he is informed that he will be charged with a crime more heinous than any mere man could ever devise: ¿the vicious rape and murder of an aged kangaroo in the Moscow Zoo on a night between July 14, 1789 and January 9, 1905.¿Every moment in the nightmarish and hilarious account that follows lives up to the absurdity of this accusation. Along the way, Fanych runs into seductive KGB agent (whös bent on convincing Fanych that he¿s a kangaroo), a camp full of old Bolsheviks desperately trying to believe in ruined revolutionary hopes, Adolf Hitler, and all three parties at the Yalta Conference (which didn¿t, as it turns out, go quite like we¿ve been told). And all this phantasmagoria is faithful to reality, for¿as Dostoevsky knew¿it is impossible for realism to portray a society whose corruption is literally fantastic.

Jim Neilson, Dirtying Our Hands: An Introduction to the Fiction of Richard Powers/Jim Neilson, An Interview with Richard Powers/James Hurt, Narrative Powers: Richard Powers as Storyteller/Greg Dawes, The Storm of Progress: Richard Powers's Three Farmers/Joseph Dewey, Hooking the Nose of the Leviathan: Information, Knowledge, and the Mysteries of Bonding in The Gold Bug Variations/Trey Stecker, Ecologies of Knowledge: The Encyclopedic Narratives of Richard Powers and His Contemporaries/Ann Pancake, 'TheWheel's Worst Illusion': The Spatial Politics of Operation Wandering Soul/Sharon Snyder, The Gender of Genius: Scientific Experts and Literary Amateurs in the Fiction of Richard Powers/Charles B.Harris, 'The Stereo View': Politics and the Role of the Reader in Gain/A Richard Powers Checklist/Sinda Gregory, Finding a Language: Introducing Rikki Ducornet/Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, At the Heart of Things and Wild Beauty: An Interview with Rikki Ducornet/Rikki Ducornet, The Death Cunt of Deep Dell/Rikki Ducornet, Excerpts from Five Novels/Raymond Leslie Williams, Ducornet and Borges/Allen Guttmann, Rikki Ducornet's Tetralogy of Elements: An Appreciation/Richard Martin, 'The Tantalizing Prize': Telling the Telling of The Fountains of Neptune/Giovanna Covi, Gender Derision, Gender Corrosion, and Sexual Differences in Rikki Ducornet's Materialist Eden/Lynne Diamond-Nigh, Phosphor in Dreamland/Warren Motte, Desiring Words/A Rikki Ducornet Checklist

Dane Johnson, Introduction: Chased by Life, Politics, Demons: Flying to Fiction/Luis Rebaza-Soraluz, Demons and Lies: Motivation and Form in Mario Vargas Llosa/Mario Vargas Llosa, The Trumpet of Deya/Mario Vargas Llosa, A Bullfight in the Andes/Efrain Kristal, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service: A Transitional Novel/Elizabeth Dipple, Outside Looking In: Aunt Julia and Vargas Llosa/Alex Zisman, Out of Failure Comes Success: Autobiography and Testimony in A Fish in the Water/Alex Zisman, A Mario Vargas Llosa Checklist/Steve Horowitz, Introduction: The Bittersweet Vision of Josef Skvorecky and a Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Him/Sam Solecki, The Last Decade: An Interview with Josef Skvorecky/Josef Skvorecky, Three Bachelors in a Fiery Furnace, a short story/Josef Skvorecky, Authors, Critics, Reviewers, a lecture/Josef Skvorecky, Keynote Address on Eastern European Literature in Transition/Lubomir Doruzka, A Genial Gossipmonger/Mila Sakova-Pierce, The Cowards: Josef Skvorecky and His Contributions to Czech Humorist Literature/Josef Jarab, This Thing, The Bass Saxophone, Is Anything But Ordinary/Edward Galligan, The Engineer of Human Souls: Skvorecky's Comic Vision/James Grove, Place and Placelessness in Josef Skvorecky's Dvorak in Love/Helena Kosek, American Themes in Skvorecky's Work: The Bride from Texas/Maria Nemcova Banerjee, Josef Skvorecky's Variation on American Themes: The Bride from Texas/Robert L.McLaughlin, A Josef Skvorecky Checklist/Margaret Wehr, The Culture of Everyday Venality: Or a Life in the Book Industry

Philip Landon, Introduction/ Markku Eskelinen, From Nonstop, or Missing in Fiction: A Synoptic Margin to a Trilogy/Mariaana Jantti, From Amorfiaana/Kari Kontio, From The Last of His Kind/Leena Krohn, Lucilia illustris/Kirsti Paltto, From Run Safely, My Flock/ Petter Sairanen, From Electric Lighting/ Hans Selo, From Cloudcomplexion/ Raija Siekkinen, The Black Sun/Lars Sund, From Colorado Avenue/Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa, From The Sun, My Father

The Red Shoes consists of tatters of a half-dozen tales (The Glass Shoe, The Gingerbread Variations, The Little Match Girl, Don Juan Is a Woman, and the title story, among others), sewn together into a novel by two seamstresses. "Fabric, fabrication - such is the stuff of these lost chronicles come together here", Gordon writes in her introduction. "Swinging their hatboxes, swaying their hips, chapters with torn slips wander in on high heels and blistered feet". Looking back to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, but also casting sidelong glances at metafictional sugardaddies like Queneau, Nabokov, Cortazar, Gass, and Milorad Pavic, The Red Shoes is a Rabelaisian romp through the language of sensuality.