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American Anger and the Lost Art of Liking (on City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World by Witold Rybczynski; Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks; & The New American Ghetto by Camilo José Vergara)

Available in our Fall 1996 issue.

By Jerry Herron

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Keeping Company (on Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood by Tony Ardizzone; Ocean of Words: Army Stories by Ha Jin; & Wherever That Great Heart May Be by W. D. Wetherell)

Available in our Fall 1996 issue.

By Lionel Basney

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Piecework: The Longer Poem Returns (on Corvus by Anselm Hollo; Muse & Drudge by Harryette Mullen; The Invention of the Zero by Richard Kenney; and Kyrie by Ellen Bryant Voigt)

Available in our Fall 1996 issue.

By Fred Chappell

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on Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties by Peter Biskind

Available in our Summer 1984 issue.

By Thomas DePietro

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Dispatches from the Culture Wars (on The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education by John K. Wilson; The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars by Todd Gitlin; & Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change by Stanley Fish)

Available in our Fall 1996 issue.

By Sanford Pinsker

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American Theater Watch, 1995–1996

Available in our Fall 1996 issue.

By Gerald Weales

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on The Oxford Book of Dreams by Stephen Brook

Available in our Summer 1984 issue.

By Judson Mitcham

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Going to Extremes (on The Work of Atget: The Ancien Régime by John Szarkowski, Maria Morris; Mountains of the Middle Kingdom by Galen Rowell; Worlds in a Small Room by Irving Penn; &El Salvador by Harry Mattison, Susan Meiselas, Fae Rubinstein, Carolyn Forché)

Available in our Summer 1984 issue.

By James Guimond

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Does Style Make the Woman (on The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women, edited by Wendy Martin; Wild Ride: Earthquakes, Sneezes and Other Thrills by Bia Lowe; Writing the World by Kelly Cherry; Field of Vision by Lisa Knopp; and Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places by Naomi Shihab Nye)

Available in our Winter 1996 issue.

By Jeff Gundy

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

By Leah Hampton

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

By Nathan Dixon

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

By Yxta Maya Murray

Flailing in the Cracks (on Janice Lee’s Imagine a Death and Brenda Iijima’s Bionic...

By Vidhu Aggarwal

Why Read Biography? New Biographical Writing on Adrienne Rich (on Hilary Holladay’s The Power...

By Julie R. Enszer

on Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu

By Nikki Ummel

on Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

By Erica Goss

on Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

By J.D. Ho

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The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Flailing in the Cracks (on Janice Lee’s Imagine a Death and Brenda Iijima’s Bionic...

Why Read Biography? New Biographical Writing on Adrienne Rich (on Hilary Holladay’s The Power...

on Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu

on Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

on Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Flailing in the Cracks (on Janice Lee’s Imagine a Death and Brenda Iijima’s Bionic...

Why Read Biography? New Biographical Writing on Adrienne Rich (on Hilary Holladay’s The Power...

on Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu

on Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

on Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

Genre: Reviews

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...