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An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro, conducted by Brian W. Shaffer
Frantz Fanon's Radio: Solidarity, Diaspora, and the Tactics of Listening, by Ian Baucom
Guerrilla Irony in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge, by Michele Janette
"Plainly on the Other Side": Susan Howe's Recovery, by Fiona Green
Secrets and Lies: Plath, Privacy, Publication and Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters, by Sarah Churchwell
An "Adjunct to the Muses' Diadem": Resuscitating the Dead Art of Reading Contemporary British Poetry, by Nigel Alderman
| (Review of Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers, by Keith Tuma [Northwestern, 1998]) |
Postmodernist Crossings: Aesthetic Strategies, Historical Moment, or a State of Mind?, by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan
| (Review of Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic, by Thomas Travisano [Virginia, 1999]) |
Texts and Contexts: The Historical Novel about Slavery, by Christine Levecq
| (Review of Neo-slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form, by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy [Oxford, 1999]) |
Everybody Knew His Name: Reassessing James Baldwin, by Robert J. Corber
| (Review of James Baldwin Now, ed. Dwight A. McBride [New York, 1999] and Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen, ed. D. Quentin Miller [Temple, 2000]) |
Unresolved Conversations, by Ethan Goffman
| (Review of Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation, by Emily Miller Burdick [Cambridge, 1998], A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and the American Popular Song, by Jeffrey Melnick [Harvard, 1999], and Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America, by Adam Zachary Newton [Cambridge, 1999]) |
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American Poetry of the 1990s: An Introduction, by Thomas Gardner
The Nineties Revisited, by Willard Spiegelman
Awash with Angels: The Religious Turn in Nineties Poetry, by Roger Gilbert
“Concrete Prose" in the Nineties: Haroldo de Campos’s Galáxias and After, by Marjorie Perloff
“The Fluidity of Damaged Form": Apostrophe and Desire in Nineties Lyric, by Ann Keniston
Charles Wright’s Via Negativa: Language, Landscape, and the Idea of God, by Bonnie Costello
Joan Retallack: A Philosopher among the Poets, a Poet among the Philosophers, by Burton Hatlen
"Fields of Pattern-Bounded Unpredictability": Recent Palimptexts by Rosmarie Waldrop and Joan Retallack, by Lynn Keller
Sherman Alexie’s Autoethnography, by John Newton
“Coming Back Here How Many Years Now": August Kleinzahler and James Wright’s Shall We Gather at the River, by Nick Halpern
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An Interview with Tom Robbins, conducted by Russell Reising
Voice in Kathy Acker’s Fiction, by Kathryn Hume
Naming the Thief in “Babylon”: Elizabeth Bishop and “The Moral of the Story,” by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan
“Her Brothers Dead in Riverside or Russia”: “Kaddish” and the Holocaust, by Scott Herring
Genre and the Geographies of Violence: Cormac McCarthy and the Contemporary Western, by Susan Kollin
A Wilderness of Size: Steven Millhauser’s Martin Dressler, by Arthur Saltzman
The Reappearing Body in Postmodern Technoculture, by Thomas Foster
| (Review of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, by N. Katherine Hayles [Chicago, 1999]) |
Dixie Chicks Down and Dirty, by Dawn Trouard
| (Review of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990, by Patricia Yaeger [Chicago, 2000]) |
Poetics of Surprise, by Zoran Kuzmanovich
| (Review of Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives, ed. Julian W. Connolly [Cambridge, 1999]) |
Mapping Asian American Voices in Literature and the Arts, by Shilpa Dave
| (Review of Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian American Arts, by Amy Ling [Temple, 1999]) and Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures, by Sheng-mei Ma [SUNY, 1998]) |
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William Gaddis: The New York State Writers Institute Tapes, edited by Christopher J. Knight
Tribes of New York: Frank O'Hara, Amiri Baraka, and the Poetics of the Five Spot, by Michael Magee
"An Atlas of the Difficult World": Adrienne Rich's Countermonument, by Joshua S. Jacobs
Charting the Flow: Positioning John Ashbery, by Nick LoLordo
"Making Up for Lost Time": Scotland, Stories, and the Self in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things, by Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Recalling Home: American Jewish Women Writers of the New Wave, by Janet Handler Burstein
Representations of the Dynamics among Mothers, Melancholia, and Men, by Deborah M. Horvitz| (Review of Melancholics in Love: Representing Women's Depression and Domestic Abuse, by Frances Restuccia [Rowan & Littlefield, 2000]) |
| (Review of Mason & Dixon & Pynchon, by Charles Clerc [UP of America, 2000]) and Pynchon and "Mason & Dixon", ed. Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin [Delaware, 2000]) |
| (Review of Poetic Culture: Contemporary American Poetry between Community and Institution, by Christopher Beach [Northwestern, 1999]); Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry, by Thomas Gardner [Nebraska, 1999]); and The Old Formalism: Character in Contemporary American Poetry, by Jonathan Holden [Arkansas, 1999]) |
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