The Procedure

Harry Mulisch translated by Paul Vincent Viking ($24.95) by Jason Picone Many contemporary novelists attempt to inform their fiction with science and philosophy, but few

The Center of Things

Jenny McPhee Doubleday ($22.95) by Rumaan Alam Who's more suited to a life of movie stardom than the children of movie stars? Reared in the

The Impossibly

Laird Hunt Coffee House Press ($23.95) by Kelly Everding In an essay on Robbe-Grillet's fiction, Roland Barthes writes: "'The human condition,' Heidegger has said, ‘is

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

Barry Hannah Atlantic Monthly Press ($24) by Brian Beatty What an earnest fool I used to be. During my undergraduate and graduate school days, as

The Metaphysics of Gerrit Lansing

by Robert Baker Growing directly out of the complex music of Gerrit Lansing's poetry is a metaphysical doctrine of considerable sophistication. But unlike many systems,

An Interview with Jalal Toufic

by Aaron Kunin Most things that are strange are actually strange in a fairly predictable way—e.g., "You're different from me, but I understand you completely;