Book Reviews
Georges Perec’s “La Boutique Obscure”
For Perec even the task of recording a dream becomes a demanding literary and intellectual game.
Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo’s “Where There’s Love, There’s Hate”
This unsung jewel of a novella by the decorated couple Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo is a stylish, postmodern-inflected pastiche of an Agatha Christie mystery.
Oleg Pavlov’s “Captain of the Steppe”
Pavlov skillfully navigates the razor-thin gap between dark comedy and tragedy, making the novel more humane and serious than many satires.
June 2013
An Introduction to Our Fourth Annual Queer Issue
The queer world is shaking.
The Opposing Shore
Blind to one another, two empires face off across a vast expanse
On the Moscow Metro and Being Gay
As long as the image of the enemy is being concocted out of gays, I must make all my public statements exclusively as a gay man.
from “The Confession”
As they wearied, the whips would fall from their hands.
To a Young Man Who Arrived at the Party Dressed in a Lady’s Fur
like some awesome Saturday night exotic dancer at the apocalypse
from “The Amman Bride”
That way we could both have our own family, but carry on seeing each other in secret.
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