Issue Content

Volume 39, Number 2/3
January-April 2018

Focus: Critical Lives II

Robert T. Tally, Jr.'s Introduction to Focus: "A Life in Theory"

Gina Masucci MacKenzie reviews Élisabeth Roudinesco's Freud: In His Time and Ours

Kenneth Surin reviews Stuart Jeffries's Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

J. Craig Hanks reviews Stefan Müller-Doohm's Habermas: A Biography

Ian Cook reviews Reinhard Mehring's Carl Schmitt: A Biography

Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Tiphaine Samoyault's Barthes: A Biography

Ronald Bogue reviews Frida Beckman's Gilles Deleuze

Stuart Elden's "Do We Need a New Biography of Michel Foucault?"

Lawrence Grossberg reviews Stuart Hall's Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands

Robert T. Tally, Jr. reviews Gary A. Olson's Stanley Fish, America’s Enfant Terrible

Guy Risko reviews William V. Spanos's On The Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum

Thais Rutledge reviews Viviane Forrester's Virginia Woolf: A Portrait

Marie Fahd reviews Joseph Tabbi's Nothing Grew but the Business

Jeffrey R. Di Leo reviews Joe Hagan's Sticky Fingers

H. Aram Veeser's "Theory and the Life of the Critic"

Book Reviews

Tim Horvath reviews Lance Olsen's Dreamlives of Debris

Jacqueline Alnes reviews Paisley Rekdal's The Broken Country

Kallie Wilbourn reviews Steven Gillis's Liars

Beth McDermott reviews Karen Corinne Herceg's Out from Calaboose

Patrick James Dunagan reviews Tongo Eisen-Martin's Heaven Is All Goodbyes

Lem Coley reviews Michelle Whittaker's Surge

Alan Walowitz reviews Sarah White's To One Who Bends My Time

T. C. Marshall reviews Scott McFarland, Fred Moten, Andrew Ridker, Jerome Rothenberg, and John Bloomberg-Rissman's O Human Microphone, The Little Edges, Privacy Policy, and Barbaric Vast & Wild

Gardner McFall reviews D. Nurkse's Love in the Last Days: After Tristan and Iseult

Diane Goodman reviews Jacob R. Weber's Don’t Wait to be Called

Jason Labbe reviews Michael Kelleher's Visible Instruments

Christopher Leise reviews David Mason's The Scarlet Libretto

Michael T. Young reviews George Heldand Daniela Gioseffi's Phased II and Waging Beauty as the Polar Bear Dream of Ice

Jeffery Sugarman reviews Nathaniel Frank's Awakening

Vanessa Loh reviews Tom Eyers's Speculative Formalism

James R. Hugunin reviews Yuriy Tarnawsky's Claim to Oblivion

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews David Rocklin's The Night Language

Helane Levine-Keating reviews Donald Lev's Focus

Departments

Page 2 -- Jeffrey R. Di Leo's "Music contra Life"

Scenes -- Atelier26 -- An interview with Diane Prokop