From the September 2023 Issue It’s Not Porn, It’s Literature Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York By Barry Reay & Nina Attwood
From the February 2022 Issue Flights of Fancy The Anomaly By Hervé Le Tellier (Translated from French by Adriana Hunter) LR
From the September 2021 Issue Styling It Out Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme By Damian Catani LR
From the December 2020 Issue Deconstructionist Deconstructed An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida By Peter Salmon LR
From the December 2019 Issue Massacre of the Satirists Disturbance By Philippe Lançon (Translated from French by Steven Rendall)
From the February 2019 Issue Jupiter Falls to Earth Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France By Christophe Guilluy (Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise)
From the April 2018 Issue Scourge of Empire Alienation and Freedom By Frantz Fanon (Edited by Jean Khalfa & Robert J C Young) (Translated by Steven Corcoran)
From the May 2017 Issue Death of an Author The 7th Function of Language By Laurent Binet (Translated by Sam Taylor) LR
From the February 2016 Issue The Great Escape 33 Days By Léon Werth (Translated by Austin Denis Johnston) LR
From the March 2014 Issue Drinking to Forget On Leave By Daniel Anselme (Translated by David Bellos) LR
From the June 2011 Issue Aux Armes! Time for Outrage! By Stéphane Hessel (Translated by Damion Searls with Alba Arrikha) LR
From the April 2012 Issue Oulipotastic Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature By Daniel Levin Becker LR
From the June 2012 Issue Slugging It Out The Boxer and the Goalkeeper: Sartre Vs Camus By Andy Martin LR
From the May 2013 Issue Stranger in His Own Land Algerian Chronicles By Albert Camus (edited by Alice Kaplan; translated by Arthur Goldhammer) LR
From the October 2011 Issue Death of the Author The Map and the Territory By Michel Houellebecq (Translated by Gavin Bowd)
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