American Book Review

Volume 44, Number 4 (Winter 2023)
Special Issue: Digital Art

Contents
From the Editor
Commerce with Montaigne
Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Focus: Digital Art
Introduction
Jessi Rae Morton

Amy Whitaker and Nora Burnett Abrams, The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy
Jessi Rae Morton

Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty, Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organizations and the Arts
Hannah Grannemann

Laura Raicovitch, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in the Age of Protest
Terry Smith

Kim Dhillon, Counter-Texts: Language in Contemporary Art
Chris Colvin

Leonhard Emmerling, The Art of Diremption: On the Powerlessness of Art, translated by Parnal Chirmuley
Gavin Sourgen

Ottessa Moshfegh and Issy Wood, My New Novel/The Down Payment
Rene Marzuk

No, Alexa: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Art
David Riddle Watson

Interventions
An Interview with Ben Okri
Frederick Luis Aldama

Lost and Found
In Search of “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Anthony Madrid

Fiction
M. G. Stephens, Kid Coole and King Ezra
John Schertzer

Max Blecher, The Illuminated Burrow, translated by Gabi Reigh
Allan Graubard

Ann McGlinn, Ride On, See You
Edward M. Bury

Miguel Ángel Asturias, Mr. President, translated by David Unger
Vivian Arimany

Tom LeClair, Passing Again
Neil D. Isaacs

Jack Driscoll, Twenty Stories
Bob Duxbury

E-Feature
The Literary Assistant as Point Guard
E. Ethelbert Miller

Cartographies
Point of View and Cognitive Mapping: The Case of Mrs. Dalloway
Robert T. Tally Jr.

Translation
The Translation Stone
Brian O’Keeffe

Poetry
DeWitt Henry, Foundlings: Found Poems from Prose
Michael Joyce

Jeffrey Franklin, Where We Lay Down
Adam Vines

Christopher Hirschmann Brandt, The Place Where Grief Begins
Patricia Laurence

Susana H. Case, The Damage Done
Cory Massaro

Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, edited by Donald G. Evans and Robin Metz
Mark Fishbein

Grace Shulman, Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2022
Hilary Sideris

Mark Weiss, A Suite of Dances
Christopher Winks

The Laureates
An Appalachian Voice Speaks for Ohio: A Conversation with Kari Gunter-Seymour
Renee H. Shea

Criticism
The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction, edited by Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, and Alistair Rolls
David Riddle Watson

Bruce Robbins, Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction
Robert T. Tally Jr.

Harold Jaffe, BRUT: Writings on Art & Artists
Eckhard Gerdes

Cultural Studies
Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
Josh Polinard

Printers and Poets
Particularly the Press
Charles Alexander

Scenes
Soft Skull Press: An Interview with Mensah Demary

Poetics to Come
Panentheism: Ontology of the Future, or Poetics?
Daniel T. O’Hara

The Departed
Cormac McCarthy’s Abendrot
David Cowart

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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