American Book Review

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