"[Blues for a Black Cat] brings back the nimble Vian in a collection of his short fiction, initially published as Les Fourmis in 1949. The work has the unmistak

Ten avant-garde fables of serious whimsy, ushered in by Older's useful introduction, bibliography, and discography....The collection displays Vian's range from

In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and