Bill Callahan Drag City ($10) by Karl Krause Sandwiched between a surrealistic dog and a bronze boxer on trap rock, Bill Callahan’s Letters to Emma Bowlcut mails

Hans Fallada translated by Michael Hofmann Melville House ($16.95) by Malcolm Forbes A mysterious person is dropping mysterious postcards across the city. No case for the

Jeff Parker DZANC Books ($16.95) by Charles Dodd White Contemporary short stories of true weight have the ability to transform our view of the world

Buddhadeva Bose translated by Arunava Sinha Archipelago Books ($15) by André Naffis-Sahely You can profit by memories—you can even steal them—but you can't extirpate them.

Thomas McGuane Alfred A. Knopf ($26.95) by Steve Street "Into the shitcan with everything ironic for the fun of it,” thinks the anti-hero of Thomas

Daniël Robberechts translated by Paul Vincent Dalkey Archive Press ($13.95) by Laird Hunt That’s how his Avignon is. A collection of streets that proceed at

Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($26) by Yevgeniya Traps In Nemesis, his thirty-first book, Philip Roth returns to the well-trod ground of the Weequahic section of

Robert Walser translated by Susan Bernofsky New Directions ($24.95) by Brent Cunningham If someone lent you a time machine and asked you to go back

Pier Paolo Pasolini edited by Jack Hirschman City Lights Books ($16.95) by Mark Gustafson Like many people, I first encountered Pier Paolo Pasolini through his

by Spencer Dew While it is generally billed as a horror comic, the enduring series John Constantine, Hellblazer can more productively be read as a lengthy treatise