Volume 43, Number 4 (Winter 2022)
Focus: The New Campus Novel
From the Editor
The Cabinetmaker’s Apprentice
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: New Campus Novel
Introduction: The New Campus Novel
Matthew Roberson
Millennial Fiction Meets the Campus Novel
Jeffrey J. Williams
Tiphaine Rivière, Notes on a Thesis
Rachel L. E. Klammer
Specters of Bloom
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Lan Samantha Chang, All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost
Julie Schumacher
Sigrid Nunez, The Friend: A Novel
Marta J. Lysik
Alex Kudera, Fight for Your Long Day
Peter Faziani
Tabish Khair, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
Emad Mirmotahari
Interventions
An Interview with Daniel Olivas
Frederick Luis Aldama
E-feature
Poetry and Diplomacy: When the Heart Wants to Cry
Indran Amirthanayagam
Fiction
Robert L. Schuster, To Zenzi
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
R. Sebastian Bennett, The Final Yen
Liana V. Andreasen
Meg Pokrass, Spinning to Mars
Lisa Slage Robinson
John Domini, The Archeology of a Good Ragù: Discovering Naples, My Father, and Myself
Robert L. Shuster
Ed Sanders, A Life of Olson & a Sequence of Glyphs on Points of his Life, Work & Times
Thomas C. Marshall
Lynda Schor, Dearth
Voyo Gabrilo
M Shelly Conner, everyman
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Jen Fawkes, Mannequin and Wife and Tales the Devil Told Me
Laura Jok
Memoir
Christine Hume, Saturation Project
Nathan Dragon
Criticism
McKenzie Wark, Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker
Blake Stricklin
Lost and Found
Matt Kuusi, Keith Bosley, and Michael Branch, editors and translators, Finnish Folk Poetry, Epic: An Anthology in Finnish and English
Anthony Madrid
Poetry
William Louis-Dreyfus, Letters Written and Not Sent: Poems
Kathryn Weld
Destiny O. Birdsong, Negotiations
Phill Provance
Grace Schulman, The Marble Bed
Helane Levine-Keating
Elana Bell, Mother Country
Hila Ratzabi
Meg Kearney, All Morning the Crows
Stephanie Rauschenbusch
David Mills, Boneyarn
Ilka Scobie
Gregory Fraser, Little Armageddon
Kathryn Pratt Russell
Kit Robinson, Thought Balloon
Larry Price
Lucas Farrell, the blue-collar sun
Laura C. Stevenson
Ilka Scobie, Any Island
Lynn McGee
Edward Morin, The Bold News of Birdcalls
Meg Kearney
Brianna Noll, The Era of Discontent
Phill Provance
Scudder H. Parker, Safe as Lightning
Patricia Carragon
Larry Fagin, ed. Miles Champion, Peaches and Gravy: Selected Poems, 1966–2016
Thomas C. Marshall
Drama
Harold Jaffe, Strange Fruit & Other Plays
R. Sebastian Bennett
Art
An Interview with Radu Oreian
David Riddle Watson
Biography
Julia Frey, Venus Betrayed: The Private World of Édouard Vuillard
Stephanie Rauschenbusch
Printers and Poets
In the Printshop / With Young Poets
Charles Alexander
Scenes
Saraband: An Interview with Sara Hunt
Poetics to Come
Losing Democracy: Politics and Poetics in Three of D. H. Lawrence’s Postwar Novels
Robert L. Caserio
The Departed
“And, I Know Things Now”: A Tribute to Sondheim
Gina Masucci MacKenzie
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Editor: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Managing Editor: Jeffrey A. Sartain
Assistant Editor: JJ Hernandez
Past Publishers: Ronald Sukenick, Charles B. Harris
Associate Editors: Charles Alexander, Rudolfo Anaya, Frederick Luis Aldama, Mark Amerika, R.M. Berry, Christine Hume, Charles Johnson, A. Van Jordan, Anthony Madrid, Cris Mazza, Gina M. MacKenzie, Christina Milletti, Doug Nufer, John Tytell, Barry Wallenstein, Tom Williams
Contributing Editors: Ron Arias, Michael Bérubé, Rosellen Brown, Andrei Codrescu, Rikki Ducornet, Dagoberto Gilb, C.S Giscombe, Joseph D. Haske, Russell Hoover, Clarence Major, Carole Maso, Larry McCaffery, Michael McClure, Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel T. O'Hara, Marjorie Perloff, Robert Peters, Corinne Robins, Charles Russell, Paul Schiavo, Barry Seiler, Charles Simic, Bruce Sterling, Regina Weinreich
This developing list arose from the COVID-19 pandemic and includes many peer-reviewed articles on topics like Fictional Pandemics, Politics, Cultural Impacts, The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919, and other related areas of study
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