Irreal (Re)views is an occasional supplement to The Cafe Irreal featuring essays and dialogues about irrealism and reviews of books and movies that might be considered irreal. We are open to submissions and reviews (but only from the point of view of some variant of irrealism) and are interested in publishing responses to points raised in the essays and reviews. Since we have very particular and specific theoretical interests it might be better to query us first with your idea before writing the article or review.
- A Note Regarding Intertextuality in Simon Collings' Sanchez Ventura by G.S. Evans (October 2022)
- The Simorgh and Escher by Daniel Galef (December 2019)
- Forgotten Cities by Jacqueline Doyle (August 2021)
- On Webzines and Would-Be Literary Revolutions (20 Years On) by G.S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg (February 2019)
- A review of Ivan Sviták's The Windmills of Humanity: On Culture and Surrealism in the Manipulated World by G.S. Evans (June 2016)
- Irreal Technology in The Semplica Girl Diaries and In the Penal Colony by G.S. Evans (January 2016)
- Michal Ajvaz: An annotated bibliography (of sorts, and with a brief commentary) by G.S. Evans (May 2015)
- Some recent book reviews from our blog (reviews of Jean Ferry, Michal Ajvaz, Jasper Fforde and Maurice Blanchot) by G.S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg (September 2014)
- The Library of Babel meets Google by Garrett Rowlan (June 2014)
- A reading and resource guide for The Cafe Irreal anthology by G.S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg (December 2013)
- An essay about that which isn't a pipe by Michal Ajvaz (February 2013)
- Architectural traits of the immortals by Garrett Rowlan (December 2012)
- Avatars of the Labyrinth by Garrett Rowlan (February 2012)
- After Kafka: Kafka criticism and scholarship as a resource in an attempt to promulgate a new literary genre (Abstract) by G.S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg (January 2012)
- A few notes on international imagination (in the context of Prague 1990-2010) by G.S. Evans (November 2010)
- Nothing doing: Maurice Blanchot and the irreal by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren (May 2010)
- The omnipresence of Franz Kafka by David Ray (February 2010)
- Il Posto (1961), an Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi reviewed by Andrew Hill (November 2008)
- A passion for waiting: Walter Benjamin in the cafés by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren (August 2008)
- Irreal expedition: a review of Zachary Mason's Lost Books of the Odyssey by Garrett Rowlan (May 2008)
- What is irrealism? by G.S. Evans (April 2008)
- Irrealism and ambient music by Garrett Rowlan (September 2007)
- On avoiding a Kafkaesque fate by David Ray (August 2006)
- A review of George Belden's Land of the Snow Men by G.S. Evans (June 2006)
- This could be a pipe: Foucault, irrealism, and Ceci n'est pas une pipe by G.S. Evans (August 2005)
- Irrealism and the visual arts by Garrett Rowlan (June 2003)
- Glimmers of irreality: the photographs of Jindrich Styrsky by Alice Whittenburg (June 2003)
- Magical realism and its meanings:a not so necessary confusion by G.S. Evans (June 2003)
- Irrealism is not a surrealism: a consideration of Analogon #32 (The Czech and Slovak Surrealists) by G.S. Evans (June 2002)
- Romanticism and revolution: some notes on the surrealist project by Alice Whittenburg (June 2002)
- The waking dream: a review of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled by Garrett Rowlan (June 2002)
- American irrealism and the cult of experience by G.S. Evans (June 2001)
- Finding the strange in the familiar: irreal stories by women writers (reviews of books by Martha Cerda, Joyce Carol Oates and Carol Shields) by Alice Whittenburg (June 2001)
- Dino Buzzati's "The falling girl" by Sabina C. Becker (June 2001)
- Defining irrealism: scientific development and allegorical possibility by Dean Swinford, University of Florida (June 2000)
- A response to "Defining irrealism" by G.S. Evans, The Cafe Irreal
- A response to "A response to 'Defining irrealism'" by Dean Swinford
- Irrealism in the U.S.A. (reviews of books by Donald Antrim, Stephen Millhauser and Colson Whitehead) by Alice Whittenburg (June 2000)
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