From the November 1999 Issue A Day Too Long Lovers For A Day By Ivan Klima (Translated by Gerald Turner) LR
From the March 2004 Issue Balkan Tragedy Balkan Tragedy By David Albahari (Trans Ellen Elias Bursac) LR
From the November 2009 Issue Koyla’s Odyssey The Good Angel of Death By Andrey Kurkov (Translated by Andrew Bromfield) LR
From the September 2005 Issue Lost Innocence Fatelessness By Imre Kertész (Translated by Tim Wilkinson) LR
From the August 2005 Issue Electric Eccentrics The Alexandrian Charlie Chaplin and Other Stories By Jack Debney LR
From the April 2005 Issue Suicide for the Faint of Heart A Matter of Death and Life By Andrey Kurkov (Translated by George Bird) LR
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