Month: August 2016

on Nurture by Maxine Kumin

By Diana Hume George
From the Summer 1989 Issue
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on Sonahchi: A Collection of Myth-Tales by Pat Carr

By B. A. St. Andrews
From the Summer 1989 Issue
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on Framework: A History of Screen-writing in the American Film by Tom Stempel

By Allison Graham
From the Summer 1989 Issue
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on The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981 by Paul Jay

By Gerald Weales
From the Summer 1989 Issue
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Gerald Weales’s “American Theater Watch” appeared in these pages from 1978 until 2010, and we have also featured on occasion his essays and reviews on topics that have included World War II and the early-career political cartoons of one Theodore Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss). In addition to his distinguished career as an author and drama specialist, Weales was a longtime professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he retired in 1987; a senior Fulbright scholar at the University of Sri Lanka; and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.

on The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman and Joan Tate

By Gerald Weales
From the Summer 1989 Issue
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Gerald Weales’s “American Theater Watch” appeared in these pages from 1978 until 2010, and we have also featured on occasion his essays and reviews on topics that have included World War II and the early-career political cartoons of one Theodore Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss). In addition to his distinguished career as an author and drama specialist, Weales was a longtime professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he retired in 1987; a senior Fulbright scholar at the University of Sri Lanka; and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.

Wonderful Geographies (on By Land, by Sea by William Hoffman; Love Life by Bobbie Ann Mason; Appalachian Patterns by Bo Ball; Moustapha’s Eclipse by Reginald Mcknight; & The All-Girl Football Team by Lewis Nordan)

By Greg Johnson
From the Summer 1989 Issue
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Greg Johnson, whose reviews have appeared regularly in our pages across many years, has published two novels, five collections of short stories, and several volumes of nonfiction. He lives in Atlanta and teaches in the graduate writing program at Kennesaw State University.

“After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?”: The Rise of Ethical Criticism (on The Company We Keep: An Ethics Of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth; The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988 by Wayne C. Booth; The Ethics of Criticism by Tobin Siebers; Find You the Virtue: Ethics, Image, and Desire in Literature by Irving Massey; & The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination by Robert Coles)

By Sanford Pinsker
From the Summer 1989 Issue
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Purple Patches, Fuddle, and the Hard Noon Light (on The West Door by Alfred Corn; Fictions from the Self by Michael Burkard; Annonciade by Elizabeth Spires; Shores and Headlands by Emily Grosholz; The Way Down by John Burt; & Stopping by Home by David Huddle)

From the Summer 1989 Issue
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Last Words

By Greg Johnson
From the Summer 1989 Issue
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Greg Johnson, whose reviews have appeared regularly in our pages across many years, has published two novels, five collections of short stories, and several volumes of nonfiction. He lives in Atlanta and teaches in the graduate writing program at Kennesaw State University.