Vol. 45, no. 2 (Summer 2024)
Contents
From the Editor
The Question of Jargon
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: Satire
Introduction: The Extremes of Satire
Sophia A. McClennen
Garry Trudeau,
#SAD! Doonesbury in the Time of Trump
Kerry Soper
Marlon Bundo and Jill Twiss, illustrated by EG Keller,
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
John Lithgow,
Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse
Daniel Freeman
Bassem Youssef,
Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring
Dina Rezk
Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated by Valentine De Landro,
Bitch Planet, Volume 1: Extraordinary Machine
Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated by Valentine De Landro,
Bitch Planet, Volume 2: President Bitch
Gina Arlene Stinnett
Chino and Tenso Tenso, illustrated by Ramón Esono Ebalé, translated by David Shook,
Obi’s Nightmare
José Álvarez Lara
Sophia A. McClennen,
Trump Was a Joke: How Satire Made Sense of a President Who Didn’t
Paul Allen Miller
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young,
Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States
Lauren Feldman
James E. Caron, S
atire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement
Matthew R. Meier
Lost and Found
Faerie Queene Reads Best Fast
Brendan White
Fiction
Lance Olsen,
Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel after David Bowie
Barry J. Faulk
Thaddeus Rutkowski,
Safe Colors: A Novel in Short Fictions
Alex Carrigan
Sergio Troncoso,
Nobody’s Pilgrims
Miriam Santana
Leslie Pietrzyk,
Admit This to No One
Meg Fancher
Mark C. Marino and Chat GPT, Hallucinate This! An Authoritized Autobotography of ChatGPT
Steve Tomasula
John Edgar Wideman,
You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981–2018
Richard Wirick
E-Feature
The Pitch Clock and the Memoir
E. Ethelbert Miller
Cartographies
Cognitive Mapping Today
Robert T. Tally Jr.
Translation
The Economy of Translation
Brian O’Keeffe
Poetry
Michael Boylan,
The Collected Poems of Michael Boylan
Michael Joyce
Sarah Arvio,
Cry Back My Sea: 48 Poems in 6 Waves
Ilka Scobie
D. Nurkse,
A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems
Stephanie Rauschenbusch
Adam Cornford,
Lalia
Giorgia Pavlidou
Tamra Plotnick,
In the Zero of Sky
Alana Dagenhart
Richard Tillinghast,
Blue If Only I Could Tell You
Anne Whitehouse
Anita Rodriguez, Joan Ryan, and Andrea Watson,
Blood Secrets: Glimpses into the Hidden Lives of the Conversos
Lily Emilina Snider
Jane Rosenberg LaForge,
My Aunt’s Abortion
Vipra Ghimire
The Laureates
“It’s Poetry Because I Say So!”: A Conversation with Salome Agbaroji, 2023 National Youth Poet Laureate
Renee H. Shea
Memoir
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941–1995, edited by Anna von Planta
Matthew Levay
Essays
The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins, edited by Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold
Joe Sacksteder
Printers and Poets
Up the River and into the Words
Charles Alexander
From Our Own
Christine Hume,
Everything I Never Wanted to Know
Laura Marris
Scenes
punctum books: An Interview with Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei
and Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy
Poetics to Come
Elizabeth S. Anker,
On Paradox: The Claims of Theory
Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
Writing the Present
Heather Love
