Vol. 14 No. 2, Summer 2009 (#54)
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Interviews
Elaine Showalter
In Praise of Women Writers
interviewed by Amy Halloran
Features
Cover artwork by George Schneeman
Plus:
Widely Unavailable: Cubists and Post-Impressionism by Arthur Jerome Eddy
reviewed by Garrett Caples
The Chapbook Corner reviewed by Noah Eli Gordon
Reviews
FICTION
Wonderful World Javier Calvo reviewed by Brian Evenson
The Book From the Sky Robert Kelly reviewed by Kelly Everding
Ghosts César Aira reviewed by Ryan Michael Williams
Bonsai Alejandro Zambra reviewed by Scott Bryan Wilson
Let Me Tell You Paul Griffiths reviewed by Alyssa Pelish
Death in Spring Mercè Rodoreda reviewed by Ryan Michael Williams
Brothers Yu Hua reviewed by Lucas Klein
Drood Dan Simmons reviewed by Bob Hussey
The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell reviewed by Tim Jacobs
Legend of a Suicide David Vann reviewed by Amy Halloran
The Tricking of Freya Christina Sunley reviewed by Kristianne Huntsberger
Unintended Consequences Larry Fondation reviewed by Jeff Bursey
The Sound of Building Coffins Louis Maistros reviewed by David Sheffieck
The End of a Good Party Jean Ross Justice reviewed by Jessica Karbowiak
POETRY
Surrealism in Greece Nikos Stabakis, ed. reviewed by Mark Tursi
Collected Poems Mervyn Peake reviewed by Jeff Bursey
Flowers of Flame Sadek Mohammed, Soheil Najm, Haider Al-Kabi, and Dan Veach, eds. reviewed by John Bradley
Manatee/Humanity Anne Waldman reviewed b W. C. Bamberger
Sunny Wednesday Noelle Kocot reviewed by Jean-Paul Pecqueur
Maximum Gaga Lara Glenum reviewed by Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
State of the Union Joshua Beckman & Matthew Zapruder, eds. reviewed by Sean Patrick Hill
Darwin’s Ark Philip Appleman reviewed by Daniela Gioseffi
American Hybrid Cole Swensen & David St. John, eds. reviewed by Johannes Göransson
All Odd and Splendid Hilda Raz reviewed by Aaron Kimmel
Please Jericho Brown reviewed by Virginia Konchan
The Panther James Whitehead reviewed by Will Clemens
The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza Eugene Ostashevsky reviewed by Peter Golub
NONFICTION
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic Ingrid D. Rowland reviewed by John-Ivan Palmer
Making an Elephant Graham Swift reviewed by Jesse Freedman
Adorno’s Noise Carla Harryman reviewed by Kit Robinson
Art and Electronic Media Edward A. Shanken, ed. reviewed by Joel Weishaus
Vanishing Landscapes Nadine Barth, ed. reviewed by Alice Dodge
Cheek by Jowl Ursula K. Le Guin
Paradoxa #21: Ursula K. Le Guin Sylvia Kelso, ed. reviewed by William Alexander
Fakers Paul Maliszewski reviewed by Laura Sims
The Adventures of Cancer Bitch S. L. Wisenberg reviewed by Stephanie Hlywak
Bodies Susie Orbach reviewed by Catherine Lacey
Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road Greg Robinson & Elena Tajima Creef, eds. reviewed by Jessica Knight
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence reviewed by Niels Strandskov
Ed Dorn Live Joseph Richey, ed. reviewed by John Jacob
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One Alan Moore, et al. reviewed by John Pistelli
The Wolverton Bible Monte Wolverton, ed. reviewed by Spencer Dew
The Drifting Classroom Kazuo Umezu reviewed by Tom Kaczynski
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