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An Interview with Paula Meehan, conducted by Eileen O'Halloran and Kelli Maloy
Getting Where? Beckett's Opening Gambit for Watt, by David Hayman
"Middle-Class Wankers" and Working-Class Texts: The Critics and James Kelman, by Mary McGlynn
Between Lives: James Merrill Reading Yeats's Prose, by Mark Bauer
Don DeLillo's Underworld and the Return of the Real, by Leonard Wilcox
Cultural Memory and Chicanidad: Detecting History, Past and Present, in Lucha Corpi's Gloria Damasco Series, by Ralph E. Rodriguez
Beyond Nature? Recent Work in Ecocriticism, by Jonathan Levin
| (Review of The Song of the Earth, by Jonathan Bate [Harvard, 2000], Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond, by Lawrence Buell [Belknap/Harvard, 2001], American Literary Environmentalism, by David Mazel [Georgia, 2000], Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature, by Patrick D. Murphy [Virginia, 2000], and Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets, by Leonard M. Scigaj [Kentucky, 1999]) |
Ethical Criticism: The Importance of Being Earnest, by Rebecca L. Walkowitz
| (Review of Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas, by Andrew Gibson [Routledge, 1999] and Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, by Bruce Robbins [New York, 1999]) |
Contextualizing John Updike, by Donald J. Greiner
| (Review of John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion, by Marshall Boswell [Missouri, 2001] and John Updike and the Cold War: Drawing the Iron Curtain, by D. Quentin Miller [Missouri, 2001]) |
American Poetry in the 1950s: Reify or Resist?, by John Gery
| (Review of Cold War Poetry, by Edward Brunner [Illinois, 2001]) |
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An Interview with John Updike, conducted by Charlie Reilly
Ethnic America Undercover: The Intellectual and Minority Discourse, by Crystal Parikh
Laughter and Uncertainty: John Ashbery's Low-Key Camp, by Mark Silverberg
Reconsidering Raymond Carver's "Development": The Revisions of "So Much Water So Close to Home," by Günter Leypoldt
Death and the Diaspora Writer: Hybridity and Mourning in the Work of Jamaica Kincaid, by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo
Question and Apocalypse: The Endlessness of Historia in Graham Swift's Waterland, by Damon Marcel DeCoste
A Case for Truth, by Eugene Goodheart
| (Review of Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics, by Reed Way Dasenbrock [Penn State, 2001]) |
Paranoia, Terrorism, and the Fictional Condition of Knowledge, by Alan Nadel
| (Review of Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America, by Timothy Melley [Cornell, 2000] and Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative, by Patrick O'Donnell [Duke, 2000]) |
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An Interview with Rob Nixon, conducted by Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl Ann Michael
"The Pastness of Landscape": Susan Howe's Pierce-Arrow, by Peter Nicholls
Falling into Fiction(s): Intertextual Travel and Translation in Rose Tremain's The Way I Found Her, by Carolyn A. Durham
A Place Both Imaginary and Realistic: Paul Auster's The Music of Chance, by Ilana Shiloh
The Exhaustion of Literature: Novels, Computers, and the Threat of Obsolescence, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
The Rescue of the Singular, by Marjorie Perloff
| (Review of New Collected Poems, by George Oppen, ed. Michael Davidson [New Directions, 2002]) |
"Struggling to 'Make It'": Poetic Careerism in the Postwar American Avant-Garde, by Susan Vanderborg
| (Review of Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde, by Libbie Rifkin [Wisconsin, 2000]) |
Hybrid Muse or Mulatto of Style: "Contact Zones of Postcoloniality," by Lee M. Jenkins
| (Review of Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott, by Paul Breslin [Chicago, 2001] and The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English, by Jahan Ramazani [Chicago, 2001]) |
Feminist Genealogies: On Experimental Women's Writing, by Elisabeth A. Frost
| (Review of Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women's Language-Oriented Writing, by Megan Simpson [State University of New York, 2000] and Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing, by Ann Vickery [Wesleyan/New England, 2001]) |
On the Short Story and the Short-Story Cycle, by Michael Trussler
| (Review of The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre, by James Nagel [Louisiana State, 2001]) |
Constructing Emotion in Deconstruction, by Charles Altieri
| (Review of Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the "Death of the Subject," by Rei Terada [Harvard, 2001]) |
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An Interview with William Gass, conducted by James R. Neighbors
The American Poetry of Thom Gunn and Geoffrey Hill, by Langdon Hammer
The "Gay Apprentice": Ashbery, Auden, and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Critic, by Aidan Wasley
Postmodern and After: Guy Davenport, by Andre Fulani
Don DeLillo’s Return to Form: The Modernist Poetics of The Body Artist, by Philip Nel
Natural Law and the Problem of Certainty: Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons, by Patrick J. Whiteley
What We Talk About When We Talk About War, by Michele Janette| (Review of The Vietnam War and Postmodernity, ed. Michael Bibby [Massachusetts, 1999], Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War, by Subarno Chattarji [Oxford, 2001], Acts and Shadows: The Vietnam War in American Literary Culture, by Philip K. Jason [Rowman and Littlefield, 2000], and Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War, by Katherine Kinney [Oxford, 2000]) |
| (Review of Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology , by Cyrus R. K. Patell [Duke, 2001]) |
| (Review of The Daughter's Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History by Caroline Rody [Oxford, 2001]) |
| (Review of Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester, by Ben Giamo [Southern Illinois] and The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs, by John Lardas [Illinois, 2001]) |
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