Lisa Robertson

Matthew Stadler

Sabrina Chou

Michel Rebosura

Vivian Sky Rehberg

Eveline Suter

On Micha Zweifel's humorous sculptural representations of the everyday Swiss-born and Rotterdam-based artist Micha Zweifel (born 1987) makes sculptures and installations portraying everyday motifs: a sleeping dog with a fly on its nose, a parked car or the view of a hedge from up close. This publication gathers his playful work.

Micha Zweifel

Cultural Writing. Poetry. Essays. THE BACK ROOM is an occasional series of presentations/symposia/bacchanals in Portland, Oregon, replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights. Including work by Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Moira Roth, Lisa Robertson, and many more. This collection is meant to inspire and inform copycat efforts in other cities.

An Anthology

The Back Room

Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha is a new novel by Matthew Stadler, the author of Allan Stein and Landscape: Memory. In a provincial Mexican capital a well-known expat gringa is found dead on a remote hillside. Narco gangs are suspected, but the real killer might be closer to home.The novel is a "cover" of another book, John Le Carre's A Murder of Quality (in the pop music tradition of cover songs, which are new renditions of old standards). The author explains his precise method in a special afterword to this unusual book.

Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha

In the Dutch city of Deventer, a routine real estate deal became a site of innovation in urban design when a cross-disciplinary team of architects, business experts, financiers, artists, and planners chose to ignore developers' warnings that serious architecture was impossible during the financial crisis. Taking charge of the planning process, the team and their client, the Deventer Hospital, designed viable, ambitious architectural solutions for problems the developers and bankers had written off as intractable.

Deventer

Nicholas Dee, a young history professor with a serious anxiety problem, turns his overwhelming fear of losing everything into a novel about the history of insurance. By the author of Landscape: Memory. Reprint.

His Researches

The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee

The point of departure for this collection is a translation of excerpts from Zwischenstadt by Thomas Sieverts.

Matthew Stadler

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