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Essays of Our Time and Clime (on The Book of Twentieth-Century Essays, edited by Ian Hamilton and The Best American Essays of the Century, edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan)

Available in our Spring 2001 issue.

By Edward Butscher

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Citizens of Somewhere Else: Memoir and the Place of Place (on More Stories from My Father’s Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer; Cherry: A Memoir by Mary Karr; and False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory by André Aciman)

Available in our Spring 2001 issue.

By Sanford Pinsker

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Plausible Abodes (on What We Come in For by Richard Lundquist; Graveyard of the Atlantic by Alyson Hagy; Travel Advisory: Stories of Mexico by David Lida; Among Prisoners by Frank Manley; and The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks by Russell Banks)

Available in our Spring 2001 issue.

By Kathleen Snodgrass

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on Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists by Richard Canning

Available in our Summer 2001 issue.

By Myles Weber

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on One Stick Song by Sherman Alexie

Available in our Summer 2001 issue.

By Gardner Linn

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Contemporary American Fiction Through University Press Filters (on American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960 by Kathryn Hume; Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence by James R. Giles; and The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing, edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks)

Available in our Summer 2001 issue.

By Sanford Pinsker

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Q & A (on Seatown and Earlier Poems by Conor O’Callaghan; Stone Sky Lifting by Lia Purpura; Turning Over the Earth by Ralph Black; & Nightworks: Poems, 1962-2000 by Marvin Bell)

Available in our Summer 2001 issue.

By Judith Kitchen

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Articles of Faith (on Pastoralia by George Saunders; One Day in the Life of a Born Again Loser and Other Stories by Helen Norris; Bad Jews and Other Stories by Gerald Shapiro; and The Stories of J. F. Powers by J. F. Powers)

Available in our Summer 2001 issue.

By Erin McGraw

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Natural Selection (on The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 by Dave Smith; Knowing: New and Selected Poems by Jonathan Holden; The Blessing: New and Selected Poems by Richard Jones; Selected Poems of Anne Sexton by Anne Sexton, edited and with an introduction by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Diana Hume George; Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems by Susan Ludvigson; and The Selected Levis by Larry Levis, selected and with an afterword by David St. John)

Available in our Fall 2001 issue.

By Greg Johnson

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on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

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Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry (on Douglas Kearney’s Patter; Oliver...

A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

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On My Therapist, Late in This Life

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

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

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

Inquiry and Imperative (on Johanna Skibsrud’s The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics and Alice...

Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry (on Douglas Kearney’s Patter; Oliver...

A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

“How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?”

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

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