James Sallis’s books include ten novels, multiple collections of short stories, poems and essays, three volumes of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau’s Saint Glinglin. He reviews widely for The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and other publications, and writes a monthly column for The Boston Globe.
Books
Asleep in the Sun
Bioy Casares’s strange, sly novel may be read as a fable of modern politics or as a meditation on the elusive parameters of the self. Above all, it is an almost scarily perfect comic turn, as well as a pure delight.