Issue Content

Volume 42, Number 6
September/October 2021

Focus: Critical Pleasure

Gina Masucci MacKenzie’s Introduction to Focus: The Drive Beyond Pleasure

Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Daniel Mendelsohn’s Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s Critical Pleasure under Late Capitalism

Daniel Rosenberg Nutters reviews Lode Lauwaert’s Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy and Alyce Mahon’s The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde

Christa DiMarco reviews Mariella Guzzoni’s Vincent’s Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him

Jean-Michel Rabaté’s Uncritical Pleasure and Critical Jouissance

Feature: For Hillis

Henry Sussman’s World Without Hillis

Tom Cohen’s The Hand and the Dog — Hillis Miller’s Secret Power

Dragan Kujundžić’s Breathless — In Memory of J. Hillis Miller

Sigi Jöttkandt’s Hillis Malheur, Open Case

Book Reviews

Jan Garden Castro reviews Juan Felipe Herrera’s Every Day We Get More Illegal

Peter Hitchcock reviews Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer’s Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Ander Monson’s The Gnome Stories

Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Michael Heller’s Telescope: Selected Poems

Lem Coley reviews Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber Baby

Ilka Scobie reviews Barry Wallenstein’s Time on the Move and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright’s Party Everywhere

Edward M. Bury reviews Carol Ann Davis’s The Nail in the Tree: Essays on Art, Violence and Childhood

Siân Roberts reviews David Slavitt’s Vidui

T. C. Marshall reviews Fred Moten’s All That Beauty

Iris Lee reviews Veronica Golos’s Girl

Erin H. Davis reviews The Best Small Fictions 2019/

Departments

Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s "There’s a Starman Waiting in the Sky"

Interventions: Frederick Luis Aldama— An Interview with Estella Gonzalez

Scenes: The Waywiser Press— An Interview with Philip Hoy

Picketing the Zeitgeist: Harold Jaffe— XR

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