Michelle Bailat-Jones

Recent reviews / essays:

• Review of Variations on the Body, Maria Ospina, tr Heather Cleary, Necessary Fiction, Aug 2021
• Review of Late Summer, Luiz Rufato, tr Julia Sanches, Necessary Fiction, July 2021
• Review of Call it Horses, Jessie van Eerden, Necessary Fiction, March 2021
• Review of Darien Hsu Gee’s Allegiance, Smokelong Quarterly, Dec 2020
• Interview with Shelley Frisch about Maybe Esther, Necessary Fiction, June 2018
• Review of Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaya, tr. Shelley Frisch, Necessary Fiction, June 2018
• Review of Kate Zambreno’s Book of Mutter, Calyx Journal, Winter/Spring 2018

Older work, by journal

At The Women’s Review of Books:

• Translation and Retranslation: Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor and Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey, Nov/Dec 2016 (issue can be bought here)

At World Literature Today:

• The African by J.M.G. Le Clezio (tr. C. Dickson)

At The Rumpus:

• The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown
• All My Friends, by Marie NDiaye (trans. Jordan Stump)
• With the Animals, by Noelle Revaz (trans. F. Donald Wilson)

At Necessary Fiction (a selection of my favorite reviews)

• The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (tr. Brian FitzGibbon)
• Housebound by Elizabeth Gentry
• Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall (tr. Philip Boehm)
• An Elegy for Mathematics by Anne Valente
• Spark by Courtney Elizabeth Mauk
• Building Waves by Taeko Tomioka (tr. Louise Heal Kawai)
• The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Allison Markin Powell)
• Best European Fiction 2013, ed. Alexandar Hemon
• The Murder of Halland,by Pia Juul (trans. Martin Aitken)
• Àgua Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler)
• Breakfast at Midnight by Louis Armand
• The Names of Things by John Colman Wood
• Elsewhere, California by Dana Johnson
• The China Factory by Mary Costello
• We Bury the Landscape by Kristine Ong Muslim
• Echolocation by Myfanwy Collins
• The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg (trans. Emily Jeremiah/Fleur Jeremiah)
• A Friend in the Police by John Givens
• Bear Down, Bear North by Melinda Moustakis
• From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet by Patrick Michael Finn
• Katzenjammered by Norma Kassirer
• The New Moscow Philosophy by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh (trans. Krystyna Steiger)
• Giraffes in Hiding by Carol Novack (reprinted here at The Short Review)
• Seven Years by Peter Stamm (trans. Michael Hofmann)
• My Business is to Create by Eric G. Wilson
• Gasoline by Quim Monzo (trans Mary Ann Newman)
• The Mothering Coven by Joanna Ruocco

At The Quarterly Conversation

• Mapping Michel Houellebecq: A Retrospective Issue 26,Winter 2011
• The Princess, the King and the Anarchist by Robert Pagani, Issue 25, Fall 2011
• Brodeck, by Philip Claudel November 2009
• Love, Anger, and Madness: A Haitian Trilogy by Marie Vieux-Chauvet July 2009

At Cerise Press

• Between Feeling and Calculating: Review of A.S. Penne’s Reckoning
• A Sense of Rebellious Ecstasy: Review of Maile Chapman’s Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto