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An Interview with Charles Bernstein, conducted by Allison Cummings and Rocco Marinaccio
Lolita: Nymphet at Normal School, by Eric Rothstein
Julian Barnes's Theses on History (in 10˝ Chapters) by Jackie Buxton
Resistance to the Message: James Merrill's Occult Epic, by Devin Johnston
Their Own Private Idaho: Transience in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, by Maggie Galehouse
Sacrifice and Sociability in the Modern Imagination: Wallace Stevens and The Cold War, by Mark Schoening
Wars Against Coherence, by Calvin Thomas
| (Review of Sublime Enjoyment: On the Perverse Motive in American Literature, by Dennis A. Foster [Cambridge, 1997] and Raids on Human Consciousness: Writing, Anarchism, and Violence, by Arthur F. Redding [South Carolina, 1998]) |
Techno-Texts and Media Machines: The New Age of American Fiction, by Susan Strehle
| (Review of Information Multiplicity: American Fiction in the Age of Media Saturation, by John Johnston [Johns Hopkins, 1998]) |
Centering Margins: The Language Poets Reconsidered (as Women), by Laura Hinton
| (Review of Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics, ed. by Christopher Beach [Alabama, 1998] and Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, ed. by Mary Margaret Sloan [Talisman, 1998]) |
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An Interview with Niyi Osundare, conducted by Cynthia Hogue and Nancy Easterlin
Coordinates and Connections: Self, Language, and World in Edward Abbey and William Least Heat-Moon, by Jonathan Levin
Literary Artifacts: Ekphrasis in the Short Fiction of Donald Barthelme, Salman Rushdie, and John Edgar Wideman, by Michael Trussler
An Erotics of Collaboration: Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland's Double Negative, by Deborah M. Mix
Skirmishes on the Border: The Evolution and Function of Paul Muldoon's Fuzzy Rhyme, by Andrew Osborn
Contemporary Irish Poetry: The North's Hegemony, by Anthony Bradley
| (Review of Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext, by Neil Corcoran [Southern Illinois, 1999], Seamus Heaney, by Helen Vendler [Harvard, 1998], and Reading Paul Muldoon, by Clair Wills [Dufour Editions, 1998]) |
Meeting Apart: Love in American Poetry, by Thomas Gardner
| (Review of What Is It Then between Us?: Traditions of Love in American Poetry, by Eric Murphy Selinger [Cornell, 1998]) |
One World You Say?: Charles Tomlinson's Poetry, by Richard Swigg
| (Review of Passionate Intellect: The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson, by Michael Kirkham [Liverpool, 1999]) |
Transnational Illiteracy, by David Huddart
| (Review of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak [Harvard, 1999]) |
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An Interview with Harryette Mullen, conducted by Elisabeth A. Frost
Form and Identity in Language Poetry and Asian American Poetry, by Timothy Yu
The Other’s Voice: Cultural Imperialism and Poetic Impersonality in Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers without End, by Tim Dean
Beading the Multicultural World: Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife and the Sacred Metaphysic, by Jonathan Little
Power and Repetition: Philosophies of (Literary) History in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred, by Christine Levecq
From the Margins of Privilege, by Betsy Draine| (Review of From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, by Louise Yelin [Cornell, 1998]) |
| (Review of Later Auden, by Edward Mendelson [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999] and “In Solitude for Company”: W. H. Auden after 1940: Unpublished Prose and Recent Criticism, ed. by Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins [Oxford, 1995]) |
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An Interview with John Barth, conducted by Charlie Reilly
Impossible Voices: Ethnic Postmodern Narration in Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest , by Caroline Rody
The Endless Reading of Fiction: Stuart Moulthrop’s Hypertext Novel, Victory Garden, by Robert L. Selig
Confusing a Naïve (Robert) Lowell and Lowell Naeve: “Lost Connections” in 1940s War Resistance at West Street Jail and Danbury Prison, by Philip Metres
How Late It Was for England: James Kelman’s Scottish Booker Prize, by Nicola Pitchford
Maps of Englishness, by Tim Watson
| (Review of Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity, by Ian Baucom [Princeton, 1999] and Englishness and National Culture, by Anthony Easthope [Routledge, 1999]) |
| (Review of After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse , by James Berger [Minnesota, 1999]) |
| (Review of The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies by Michael Bérubé [New York, 1998], Does Literary Studies Have a Future?, by Eugene Goodheart [Wisconsin, 1999], Academic Keywords: A Devil’s Dictionary for Higher Education by Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt [Routledge, 1998], Literature: An Embattled Profession by Carl Woodring [Columbia, 1999]) |
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