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How Others Have Lived Here (on When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmerelda Santiago; Devotion: A Memoir by Miriam Levine; Edge Effects: Notes from an Oregon Forest by Chris Anderson; & Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World by Scott Russell Sanders)

Available in our Summer 1994 issue.

By Jeff Gundy

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(Re)joycing about (Re)reading (on Retelling/Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times by Karl Kroeber & Rereading by Matei Calinescu)

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By Sanford Pinsker

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Taking Sides: Six Poetry Anthologies (on Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness by Carolyn Forché; A Gathering of Poets by Maggie Anderson, Alex Gildzen, and Raymond Craig; The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men by Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade; Men of Our Time: Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America by Fred Moramarco and Al Zolynas; Fast Talk, Full Volume by Alan Spears; & African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology by Joan R. Sherman)

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on James Dickey and the Politics of Canon: Assessing the Savage Ideal by Ernest Suarez

Available in our Fall 1994 issue.

By Collie Owens

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on Limited Lifetime Warranty by Nance Van Winckel

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By Tod Marshall

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on Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860 by Daniel A. Cohen

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By Horace Montgomery

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The Stories Letters Tell (on The Gonne-Yeats 1893-1938 by Anna MacBride White, A. Norman Jeffares; The Last Word: Letters Between Marcia Nardi and William Carlos Williams by Elizabeth Murrie O’Neil; & Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir 1940-1963 by Simone de Beauvoir, Lee Fahnestock, and Norman MacAfee)

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By Patricia Meyer Spacks

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After the Losses (on The Alchemy of Illness by Kat Duff; Intoxicated by My Illness: And Other Writings on Life and Death by Anatole Broyard and Alexandra Broyard; Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams; Carnal Acts by Nancy Mairs; Life Work by Donald Hall; A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing by Reynolds Price)

Available in our Fall 1994 issue.

By Jeanne Braham

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Inner Worlds (on Do Not Peel the Birches by Fleda Brown Jackson; The Physicist at the Mall by Janet Holmes; Before Our Eyes by Lawrence Joseph; The City of Women: A Sequence of Poems and Prose by Sherod Santos; & Moss Burning by Marianne Boruch)

Available in our Fall 1994 issue.

By Judith Kitchen

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