Issue Content

Volume 42, Number 5
July/August 2021

Focus: Detective Fiction

David Watson’s Introduction to Focus: Detective Fiction

Eric Sandberg reviews Chan Ho-Kei’s Second Sister

Daiana Gârdan reviews Transnational Crime Fiction: Mobility, Borders and Detection

Susan Elizabeth Sweeney reviews Keith Ridgway’s Hawthorn & Child and Keith Ridgway’s A Shock

Lawrence Ware reviews HBO’s Watchmen

Catherine Ross Nickerson reviews Becky Cooper’s We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence and Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan’s The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer

Clare Rolens reviews Susannah B. Mintz’s The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Christopher Breu reviews “Noir as Affect”

Matthew Luter’s Jonathan Lethem’s The Feral Detective

Book Reviews

Davis Schneiderman reviews Q. Synopsis’s Tinyman for President

Brian O’Keeffe reviews Jacques Derrida’s Clang

Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Paul Austin’s Notes on Hard Times

Diane Goodman reviews Rachel Swearingen How to Walk on Water and Other Stories

Ilka Scobie reviews Alan Kaufman’s The Berlin Woman

Hassan Melehy reviews Timothy Hampton’s Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work

Andrew Walser reviews César Aira’s Birthdaya>

Joel Harrison reviews David Dann’s Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield’s Life in the Blues

Burt Kimmelman reviews Stephanie Strickland’s How the Universe Is Madea>

Ilka Scobie reviews Pamela Sneed’s Funeral Diva

Erin H. Davis reviews Kelly Daniels’s A Candle for San Simóna>

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright reviews Elaine Equi’s The Intangibles

Jaclyn Piudik Everywoman Her Own Theologya>

Departments

Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s "No Country for Old Humanities"

Interventions: Frederick Luis Aldama— An Interview with C. Dale Young

The Departed: John Tytell— The Last Lighthouse

Scenes: Tia Chucha Press— An Interview with Luis J. Rodriguez