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The Review of Contemporary Fiction

The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization. The Review's aesthetic focus has been called many things-postmodern, experimental, avant-garde, metafictional, subversive-but in bringing this aesthetic to a wider audience it also seeks to expose the artificial barriers that exist between and within cultures. To this end the Review has a special affinity for the works of foreign writers who may otherwise go unread in the United States, as well as American writers whose work has gone unchampioned in their own country. An extensive book review section also covers recent works of innovative writing. Above all, the Review of Contemporary Fiction attempts to expand readers' notions of what fiction is and what it can do.

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Vol. XXVII, no. 2 : Special Fiction Issue: Juan Emar

Vol. XXVII, no. 1 : Dalkey Archive Annual 1

Vol. XVI, #1: The Future of Fiction : The Future of Fiction

Vol. III, #3: Julio Cortazar / John Hawkes : Julio Cortazar
John Hawkes

Vol. XX, #3: Henry Green / James Kelman / Ariel Dorfman : Henry Green
James Kelma
Ariel Dorfman

Vol. XX, #2: Jean Rhys / John Hawkes / Paul Bowles / Marguerite Young : Jean Rhys
John Hawkes
Paul Bowles
Marguerite Young

Vol. XX, #1: Bradford Morrow : Bradford Morrow

Vol. XXI, #3: Gilbert Sorrentino / William Gaddis / Mary Caponegro / Margery Latimer : Gilbert Sorrentino
William Gaddis
Mary Caponegro
Margery Latimer

Vol. XXI, #2: Janice Galloway / Thomas Bernhard / Robert Steiner / Elizabeth Bowen : Janice Galloway
Thomas Bernhard
Robert Steiner
Elizabeth Bowen

Vol. XIX, #3: Writers on Writing: The Best of The Review of Contemporary Fiction : Writers on Writing: The Best of The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Vol. XIX, #2: Special Fiction Issue : Special Fiction Issue

Vol. XIX, #1: Edward Sanders : Edward Sanders

Vol. XVIII, #3: Richard Powers / Rikki Ducornet : Rikki Ducornet/Richard Powers

Vol. XVIII, #2: Curtis White / Milorad Pavic : Curtis White
Milorad Pavic

Vol. XVIII, #1: New Latvian Fiction : New Latvian Fiction

Vol. XVII, #3: Raymond Queneau / Carole Maso : Raymond Queneau
Carole Maso

Vol. XVII, #2: Wilson Harris / Alan Burns : Wilson Harris
Alan Burns

Vol. XVII, #1: Mario Vargas Llosa / Joseph Skvorecky : Mario Vargas Llosa
Josef Skvorecky

Vol. XVI, #2: New Finnish Fiction : New Finnish Fiction

Vol. XVI, #3: Edmund White / Samuel R. Delany : Edmund White/Samuel R. Delany

Vol. XXI, #1: David Antin : David Antin

Vol. XXII, #3: Louis Zukofsky / Nicholas Mosley / Coleman Dowell : Louis Zukofsky
Nicholas Mosley
Coleman Dowell

Vol. XXII, #2: New Japanese Fiction : New Japanese Fiction

Vol. XXII, #1: Italo Calvino / Ursule Molinaro / B. S. Johnson : B.S. Johnson
Italo Calvino
Ursule Molinaro

Vol. XXIII, #3: Diane Williams / Aidan Higgins / Patricia Eakins : Diane Williams
Aidan Higgins
Patricia Eakins

Vol. XXIII, #2: Rick Moody / Ann Quin / Silas Flannery : Rick Moody
Ann Quin
Silas Flannery

Vol. XV, no. 3 : Brigid Brophy
Robert Creeley
Osman Lins

Vol. XV, no. 2 : Stanley Elkin
Alasdair Gray

Vol. XV, no. 1 : New Danish Fiction

Vol. XIV, no. 3 : Angela Carter
Tadeusz Konwicki

Vol. XIV, no. 2 : New Flemish Fiction

Vol. XIV, no. 1 : Paul Auster
Danilo Kis

Vol. XIII, no. 3 : Djuna Barnes

Vol. XIII, no. 2 : Younger Writers Issue:
William T. Vollmann
Susan Daitch
David Foster Wallace

Vol. XIII, no. 1 : Georges Perec
Felipe Alfau

Vol. XII, no. 3 : New Italian Fiction

Vol. XII, no. 2 : Jose Donoso
Jerome Charyn

Vol. XII, no. 1 : Robert Walser

Vol. XI, no. 3 : William H. Gass
Manuel Puig

Vol. XI, no. 2 : Donald Barthelme
Toby Olson

Vol. XI, no. 1 : Alexander Theroux
Paul West

Vol. XXIII, no. 1 : Casebook Study of Gilbert Sorrentino’s Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

Vol. X, no. 3 : Grove Press Issue

Vol. X, no. 2 : John Barth
David Markson

Vol. X, no. 1 : Joseph McElroy

Vol. IX, no. 3 : Kathy Acker
Christine Brooke-Rose
Marguerite Young

Vol. IX, no. 2 : Milan Kundera
Zulfikar Ghose

Vol. IX, no. 1 : New French Fiction

Vol. VIII, no. 3 : Novelist As Critic

Vol. VIII, no. 2 : Claude Ollier
Carlos Fuentes

Vol. VIII, no. 1 : Arno Schmidt

Vol. VII, no. 3 : Harry Mathews

Vol. VII, no. 2 : Samuel Beckett

Vol. VII, no. 1 : Chandler Brossard

Vol. VI, no. 3 : Luisa Valenzuela

Vol. VI, no. 2 : Italo Calvino

Vol. VI, no. 1 : Fiction Issue

Vol. V, no. 3 : Charles Bukowski
Michel Butor

Vol. V, no. 2 : B. S. Johnson
Jean Rhys

Vol. V, no. 1 : Claude Simon

Vol. IV, no. 3 : Camilo José Cela

Vol. IV, no. 2 : Juan Goytisolo
Ishmael Reed

Vol. IV, no. 1 : William Burroughs

Vol. III, no. 2 : Jack Kerouac
Robert Pinget

Vol. III, no. 1 : William Eastlake
Aidan Higgins

Vol. II, no. 3 : Paul Bowles
Coleman Dowell

Vol. II, no. 2 : William Gaddis
Nicholas Mosley

Vol. II, no. 1 : Douglas Woolf
Wallace Markfield

Vol. I, no. 2 : Paul Metcalf
Hubert Selby, Jr.

Vol. XXIV, no. 3 : William H. Gass

Vol. I, no. 1 : Gilbert Sorrentino

Vol. XXIV, no. 2 : Robert Creeley
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Janet Frame

Vol. XXIV, no. 1 : Douglas Glover
Blaise Cendrars
Severo Sarduy

Vol. XXV, no. 3 : Flann O'Brien
Guy Davenport
Aldous Huxley

Vol. XXV, no. 2 : William H. Gass
Robert Lowry
Ross Feld

Vol. XXV, no. 1 : Gert Jonke
Kazuo Ishiguro
Emily Holmes Coleman

Vol. XXVI, no. 2 : William Eastlake
Julieta Campos
Jane Bowles

Vol. XXVI, no. 1 : Steven Millhauser

Vol. XXVI, no. 3 : New Cuban Fiction