This 360-page double issue brings together more than 50 German-language writers, particularly those who have emerged since 1989 and those not well-represented in English translation. Contributors include –

POETRY: Jürgen Becker, Marcel Beyer, Franz Josef Czernin, Ulrike Draesner, Elke Erb, Gerhard Falkner, Matthias Göritz, Durs Grünbein, Rolf Haufs, Hendrik Jackson, Thomas Kling, Barbara Köhler, Uwe Kolbe, Friederike Mayröcker, Helga Novak, Brigitte Oleschinski, Albert Ostermaier, Oskar Pastior, Sabine Scho, Raoul Schrott, Lutz Seiler, Michael Speier, Peter Waterhouse.

FICTION: Marcel Beyer, Maxim Biller, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Sherko Fatah, Rainald Goetz, Joachim Helfer, Judith Hermann, Thomas Hettche, Wolfgang Hilbig, Felicitas Hoppe, Wladimir Kaminer, Birgit Kempker, Thomas Lehr, Dagmar Leupold, Thomas Meinecke, Perikles Monioudis, Terézia Mora, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Ulrich Peltzer, Kathrin Röggla, Sabine Scholl, Ingo Schulze, Ruth Schweikert, Antje Strubel, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, Yoko Tawada, Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Alissa Walser, Feridun Zaimoglu.

This issue was released on June 15th, 2002.

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Click here for a long and considered review of this anthology by Norman Jope.