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january- february march - april - may

Short Fiction
Craig Davidson
On Sleepless Roads
Patrick Somerville
The Cold War
Xhenet Aliu
Flipping Property
Mark Gallacher
The Curse
picks from back issues
Michel Faber
Some Rain Must Fall

Neil LaBute
Time Share 

 
Quiz
Music Inspired by Literature
Answer to last issue’s quiz,
American Literature and Culture of the 1970s


book reviews
Measuring Time
by Helon Habila
Death of a Superhero
by Anthony McCarten

june -july - august 10th Anniversary Special

Short Fiction
Nick Antosca:
The Early Years, Before His Great Adventures

Des Dillon:
Washing Machine Guy 
Bunch of Cunts
H.A. Fleming:
People Like Us

A.C. Hoff:
Tommy and the Tick

T.J. Norton:
Pyrrhic Perversion

Suhayl Saadi:
Extra Time in Paradise

G.K.Wuori:
The Satchel Of Fanciful Happiness

memoir

Don Long: Pamplona to Barcelona

interview
A.M. Homes by Jill Adams

quiz
The Barcelona Review
10th Anniversary Quiz

Answer to last issue’s quiz,
Music Inspired by Literatur
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book reviews
The Mistress's Daughter by A.M. Homes
Hospital by Toby Litt
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley

september-october

George Saunders: PRKA
Judy Budnitz: Preparedness
A. C. Hoff: Arkright and the Blue Breathing Girl
Kathy J. Karlson: All That Whitman Stuff
Garrett Socol: Sally’s Suicide Checklistpick

from back issues
Teresa Peipins: Just Like Elvis
Julie Orringer: Care

poetry
Tim Turnbull: Caligula on Ice

article
Russia Gets a New Review by Zachary Shtogren

quiz
A.M. Homes
Answer to last issue’s quiz: The Barcelona Review 10th Anniversary Quiz

book reviews
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
The Big Girls by Susanna Moor
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november-december

Rebecca Curtis: The Witches
Jerald Walker: Clarity
Julie R. Brickman: The Rainbow Range
Rachel Maizes: Love in New Jersey

pick from back issues
Mark Anthony Jarman: Cougar 
Douglas Coupland: Fire at the Ativan Factory 
quiz
Slutty Women in Lit
Answer to last issue’s quiz, A.M. Homes

book reviews
A Free Life by Ha Jin
Run by Ann Patchett

 

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january-february

Short Fiction
Niall Griffiths
Coming of Age

David Ramos Fernandes
Storage

Nora Pierce
Guess Who Loves Me Now?

Caroline Kepnes
Companions

Katie Arnsteen
Long Ride Home


picks from back issues
Pete Duval
Fun With Mammals

Adam Johnson
Trauma Plate


interview
James Meek

quiz
Harold Pinter
answers to last issue’s quiz, Harry Potter


book reviews

The People’s Act of Love
by James Meek
The Blind Rider
by Juan Goytisolo

Borrowed Light
by Joolz Denby

Cold Skin
by Albert Sánchez Piñol
march - april  

Short Fiction|
Kit Reed
Grand Opening

R.D.T Byrd
Fooling God

Terry DeHart
Chasing Angela

Steven Gullion
Old Maids

Patrick Cole
California Stop


picks from back issues
Adam Haslett
The Beginnings of Grief

Neil LaBute
Time Share


quiz
American Lit and Culture of the 1960s
answers to last issue’s quiz, Harold Pinter

book reviews

The Highest Tide
by Jim Lynch
may - june

Short Fiction
Helen Simpson
Every Third Thought

Josip Novakovich
Night Guests

Rattawut Lapcharoensap
At the Café Lovely

Craig Dixon
Box Count

David Ramos Fernandes
Blossom


picks from back issues
Barry Gifford
Holiday from Women
and Dancing With Fidel
Des Dillon
The Blue Hen


quiz
Animals in Literature
answers to last issue’s quiz:
American Lit and Culture of the1960s


book reviews

The Stars Above Veracruz
by Barry Gifford

The Priest of Evil
by Matti-Yrjänä Joensuu
july - august

Short Fiction
Josip Novakovich: Ideal Goalie
Julian Daragiati: World Cup
Nickolay Todorov: Penalty in Injury Time

Rob McClure Smith: Easterhouse
Alex Mitchell:
The Society for Recreating the Hachiko Statue

Kathryn Simmonds:
A Quiet Drink


picks from back issues
football stories:

Irvine Welsh:
A Fault on the Line

Suhayl Saadi: Sufisticated Football

quiz

Sports in Literature
answers to last issue's quiz, Animals in Literature


book reviews
The Dead Yard
by Adrian McKinty

Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
september-october

Short Fiction
A-dZiko Simba:
Someone To Tell

Ken Bruen:
Loaded

Elizabeth Collison:
The Last Waltz

Leland Neville:
Visualize Christmas Peace Is Not Random

picks from back issues
Steve Earle: Wheeler County
 Alicia Gifford: Surviving Darwin

l o c a l  r e p o r t
Primer Festival Internacional de Teatre Infantil i Juvenil de Campalans
by Michael Garry Smout


quiz
Chaucer
answers to last issue's quiz, Sports in Literature


book reviews

The Woman Who Waited by Andrei Makine
Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop,edited by Colin Channer
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
Only Strange People Go To Church by
Laura Marney

november-december

Short Fiction
Bernard MacLaverty:
A Trusted Neighbour

Laura Hird: Victims
Mike Lubow:
Phil in the Elevator

picks from back issues
Deirdre Heddon:
Still Life

Laura Hird:
The Happening

Mark Anthony Jarman: Cougar

interview
Bernard MacLaverty
by Dave Fernandes
quiz
American Literature and Culture of the 1970s
Answer to last issue's quiz, Chaucer
book reviews

Carry Me Down
by M..J. Hyland
The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette; translated by James Brook

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january-february

Short Fiction
Steve Earle
Wheeler County

Kathy Flann
El Corazón

Marshall Moore
Urban Reef

Rob McClure Smith
Scots in Hawaii

Norberto Luis Romero
translated from the Spanish
Snipers

picks from back issues
Laura Hird
Routes
Marian Keyes
Soulmates

quiz
William Faulkner
answers to last issue’s quiz
Literary Lovers

book reviews
Heredity
by Jenny Davidson

Hidden River
by Adrian McKinty

Shadow Family
by Miyuki Miyabe
march - april  

Short Fiction
Neil LaBute
Time-Share

Mark Anthony Jarman
Fables of the Deconstruction (the bra story with Jacques Derrida)

Caroline Kepnes
My Son, the Priest

Pauline Masurel
Reality TV

picks from back issues
Steven Rinehart
Burning Luv

Leelila Strogov
Fatso

Interview
Jerry Portwood
interviews Carlos Mayor and Eduardo Iriarte,
the Spanish translators of Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons

quiz
Pop Music
and Contemporary Fiction

answers to last issue’s quiz, William Faulkner
book reviews
The Ha-Ha
by Dave King

Borrowed Body by Valerie Mason-John
may - june

Short Fiction
G.K. Wuori
Respectful Beatings For Very Good Help

Stephanie Dickinson
Q & A

Tomi Shaw
On the Sole of a Nike
Laura Hird
I Am Gone

picks from back issues
George Saunders
Sea Oak

Charles D’Ambrosio
Her Real Name

quiz
Food and Drink in Literature
answers to last issue’s quiz, Pop Music and Contemporary Fiction

book reviews
The Sluts
by
Dennis Cooper

We Need to Talk
About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

The Last Llanelli Train
by Robert Lewis

Mouths of Babes
by Stella Duffy
july - august

Short Fiction
Nicholas Royle
The Performance

Suhayl Saadi
Sufisticated Football

Cyan James
Lewis and Clark, Bryce and Tony

non-fiction
Josh Capps
Soldier of...

picks from back issues
Ann Cummins
Where I Work

Todd Sandvik
The Note

quiz
‘Marys’ in Literature
answers to last issue’s quiz, Food and Drink in Literature

book reviews
Antwerp
by Nicholas Royle

The Not Knowing
by Cathi Unsworth
september-october - november-december

Short Fiction
Donald Hays
Why He Did It

Beth Ann Bauman
True

Robert Lopez
Shall We Run for Our Lives

Paul Mandelbaum
Adriane and the Court-Appointed Psychiatrist

Laura Marney
And the Winner Is

picks from back issues
Jesse Shepard
First Day She’d Never See

Cheryl Alu
Whoever You Want Me To Be

interview
Laura Marney
quiz
Harry Potter
answers to last issue’s quiz:
Marys in Literature

book reviews
Blinding Light by Paul Theroux
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january-february

Short Fiction
Mary Woronov: George and Shoe Store
Leelila Strogov: Fatso
Simmone Howell: Golden
Connla Stokes: The Splurgy Shore
picks from back issues
Lynn Coady: Jesus Christ, Murdeena
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez: Buried in Shit and Stars and Losers
Retrospective
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán: 1939 – 2003
The man and his work
Two reviews: An Olympic Death and The Buenos Aires Quintet
Interview
Ilan Stavans
Quiz
John Steinbeck
answers to last issue’s 18th-Century English Literature
Readers' Poll
Results - Best/Worst of 2003
Book Reviews
Demonized and The Devil in Me by Christopher Fowler
The Epicure’s Lament by Kate Christensen
Blind Love
by Mary Woronov

Lizard Dreaming of Birds
by John Gist

Dreamland
by Newton Thornburg
march - april  

Short Fiction
G.K. Wuori
Naked With Boys

Nelly Reifler
Personal Foundations of Self-Forming Through Auto-Identification With Otherness

Pat MacEnulty
The End

Paul Bergstraesser
Humility

Colm Clark
Mimes for Christ

picks from back issues
Javier Marías
Fewer Scruples

Adam Haslett
The Beginnings of Grief

Non-Fiction
Gretchen McCullough
The New Beirut

Interview
Adam Haslett
by Sherry Ellis

Quiz
19th-Century English Literature
answers to last issue’s quiz
John Steinbeck

Book Reviews
Villa Incognito
by Tom Robbins

The Furies
by Fernanda Eberstadt

Dead I May Well Be
by Adrian McKinty

Boy A
by Jonathan Trigell

The Language of Sharks
by Pat MacEnulty
may - june

Short Fiction
Oscar Casares
RG

Ron Butlin
Colours

Kathryn Simmonds
This Little Piggy

Bruce Henricksen
The Celebrated Stripper of Subfusc County

non- Fiction
Barbara F. Lefcowitz
The Luminaries of Marienbad

Neale de Sousa
Dromedary

picks from back issues
Frederick Barthelme
Driver

Dorothy Speak
The View from Here

quiz
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
answers to last issue’s quiz 19th-Century English Literature

Book Reviews
The Gravedigger’s Story
by Ged Simmons

The Hollywood Dodo
by Geoff Nicholson

Handsome Harry or the Gangster’s True Confessions
by James Carlos Blake

In the Miso Soup
by Ryu Murakami

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
by Marion Meade
july - august

Short Fiction
Barry Gifford
Holiday from Women

Nic Kelman
girls

Brian Leung
Executing Dexter
J.K. Mason
A Caricature of Faith

Juan Bonilla
Mónica’s Letters

picks from back issues
Julie Orringer
Care

Javier Marías
Fewer Scruples

interview

Nic Kelman
quiz
The Iliad
answers to last issue’s quiz
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

book reviews
Do the Blind Dream?
by Barry Gifford

The Little White Car
by Danuta de Rhodes

girls
by Nic Kelman

World Famous Love Acts
by Brian Leung

Deadfolk
by Charlie Williams

One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed
by Melissa P.

Psychoraag
by Suhayl Saadi
september-october

Short Fiction
Des Dillon
Echo

Pete Duval
Fun With Mammals

Ann Cummins
Where I Work

Cheryl Alu
Whoever You Want Me
To Be

Karen George
Lifty

non-fiction
Dagoberto Gilb
Me Macho, You Jane

picks from back issues
Jess Mowry
One Way

Jesse Shepard
First Day She’d Never See

quiz
Florida
answers to last issue’s quiz The Iliad

book reviews
Mobius Dick
by Andrew Crumey

Billie Morgan
by Joolz Denby
november-december

Short Fiction
Barry Gifford
Dancing with Fidel

Colin Channer
Revolution

Eduardo Antonio Parra
Just Don’t Take the Little I Got

Benjamin Whitmer
Treed

Charles Lambert
The Time It Takes

picks from back issues
Emily Carter
WLUV

H.A. Fleming
Who I Was Supposed To Be

quiz
Literary Lovers
answers to last issue’s quiz, Florida

book reviews
American Desert
by Percival Everett
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