American Book Review

Volume 42, Number 6
September/October 2021

There's a Starman Waiting in the Sky
Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Introduction to Focus: The Drive Beyond Pleasure
Gina Masucci MacKenzie

Reading Proust with Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel T. O'Hara

Critical Pleasure under Late Capitalism
Jeffrey R. Di Leo

A Postscript to Transgression?
Daniel Rosenberg Nutters

The Literary Code of Vincent van Gogh
Christa DiMarco

Uncritical Pleasure and Critical Jouissance
Jean-Michel Rabaté

World Without Hillis
Henry Sussman

The Hand and the Dog—In Memory of J. Hillis Miller
Tom Cohen

Breathless—In Memory of J. Hillis Miller
Dragan Kujundžić

Hillis Malheur, Open Case
Sigi Jöttkandt

Interventions: An Interview with Estella Gonzalez by Frederick Luis Aldama
Estella Gonzalez, Frederick Luis Aldama

Let's Talk About It
Jan Garden Castro

Slippery Subjectivity
Peter Hitchcock

A Post-Apocalyptic Poetics
Jane Rosenberg LaForge

Tone-Perfect Poems
Stephanie Rauschenbusch

A Graphic Bildungsroman
Lem Coley

Three of a Perfect Pairing
Ilka Scobie

Healing the Wound
Edward M. Bury

Grief Lit
Siân Roberts

Triangulating Truths
T. C. Marshall

Motherspeak and Daughterspeak
Iris Lee

The Demand for Brevity
Erin H. Davis

Scenes: The Waywiser Press: An interview with Philip Hoy
Philip Hoy

Picketing the Zeitgeist: XR
Harold Jaffe

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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