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Seeing Laughter Steadily and Whole (on Comedy High & Low: An Introduction to the Experience of Comedy by Maurice Charney; & The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary American Comic Novel by Ronald Wallace)

Available in our Summer 1980 issue.

By Sanford Pinsker

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Some Manhattan in New England, Some Enchantment in Ohio (on The Best American Short Stories 1979 by Joyce Carol Oates, Shannon Ravenel; Rope Dances by David Porush; The Drum Concerto by Emily Katharine Harris; Da Vinci’s Bicycle by Guy Davenport; Tales from the Blue Stacks by Robert Bernen; Childhood and Other Neighborhoods by Stuart Dybek; Tales of the Ohio Land by Jack Matthews; & “Wilderness Plots” by Scott Sanders)

Available in our Summer 1980 issue.

By William F. Van Wert

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Resemblances and Transformations (on Succession by Mary Swander; Rising and Falling by William Matthews; Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver; The Cry of Oliver Hardy by Michael Heffernan; Sunday by Thomas Lux; Notes from the Castle by Howard Moss; & As We Know by John Ashbury)

Available in our Summer 1980 issue.

By Peter Stitt

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Missingeria and Literary Health (on The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer; White House Years by Henry Kissinger; Letters by John Barth; It Looked Like For Ever by Mark Harris; Tethered by David Martin; Days by Mary Robison; & The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth)

Available in our Summer 1980 issue.

By Richard Stern

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Deconstruction as Dogma, or, “Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Strether Honey!” (on Deconstruction and Criticism by Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller)

Available in our Summer 1980 issue.

By Gerald Graff

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on The Inadvertent Epic: From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Roots by Leslie A. Fiedler

Available in our Fall 1980 issue.

By Sanford Pinsker

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on William Carlos Williams and the American Scene, 1920-1940 by Dickran Tashjian

Available in our Fall 1980 issue.

By Carl Rapp

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on The Harvest Festival by Sean O’Casey

Available in our Fall 1980 issue.

By Gerald Weales

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Painting, Picasso, and Politics (on About Looking by John Berger; The Success and Failure of Picasso by John Berger; & Ways of Seeing by John Berger)

Available in our Fall 1980 issue.

By Pepe Karmel

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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

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