Issue Content
Volume 29, Number 4
May/June 2008
Women of Color Publishing
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s “Introduction to the Focus: ‘This Instant and This Triumph’”
Alisha Gaines reviews Ernest Hardy’s Blood Beats: Vol. 2 / The Bootleg Joints
Ebony Noelle Golden reviews asha bandele’s The Subtle Art of Breathing: New Poems: 1997–2005
Paulina Hernández reviews INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence’s The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Danielle Evans reviews ed. Michelle Sewell’s Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!
BrownFemiPower reviews ed. Noemi Martinez’s The MAIZ Chronicles
Kinohi Nishikawa reviews ed. UBUNTU’s Wrong is Not My Name: A Tribute to Survival via June Jordan
Feature: Journeys in Theory
Yevgeniya Traps reviews Geoffrey Hartman’s A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe
Robin Truth Goodman reviews Henry A. Giroux’s The University in Chains: Confronting the Military- Industrial-Academic Complex
Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Marcel Danesi’s The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice
Book Reviews
Daniel Garrett reviews Percival Everett’s The Water Cure
Thomas S. Williams reviews Richard Lange’s Dead Boys
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein reviews Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.’s Poetry’s Playground: The Culture of Contemporary Children’s Poetry
Keya Mitra reviews Haruki Murakami’s After Dark
Angela Ball reviews Cole Swensen’s The Glass Age
Tom Nolan reviews Philip Lambert’s Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys’ Founding Genius
Jeffrey Allen Tucker reviews Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections
Davis Schneiderman reviews William S. Burroughs’s Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs
Eric Miles Williamson reviews Adria Bernardi’s Openwork
Todd Starkweather reviews ed.Philip F. Deaver’s Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball
Christian Moraru reviews Paul Maltby’s An Exalted House
Laura Grace Godwin reviews N. Scott Momaday’s Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows
Leora Lev reviews D. Harlan Wilson’s Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia
John Ferguson reviews Alain Arias-Misson’s Theatre of Incest
Gary Lain reviews Steve Erickson’s Zeroville
Departments
Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “A Good Reviewer is Hard to Find”
Picketing the Zeitgeist—Jonah Raskin’s “Calls of the Wild: On the Page and on the Screen”
From Our Own—Rob Stephenson reviews Lance Olsen’s Anxious Pleasures: A Novel after Kafka
LineOnLine—Bucolics, Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven—A Pilgrimage, After Eden, Oceans Beyond Monotonous Space: Selected Poems of Kitasono Katue, Sheer Fiction, Dark Music, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, and A Brahms Card Ballad: Poems Selected for Hungarians
