Comics
Volume 36, Number 2
January-February 2015
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Bill Kartalopoulos’s Introduction to Focus: Comics
Dash Shaw reviews Dennis Cooper and Keith Mayerson’s Horror Hospital Unplugged
Austin English reviews Anya Davidson’s School Spirits
Matthew Thurber reviews Tim Hensley’s Ticket Stub
Nicole Rudick reviews Aidan Koch’s Impressions
Joe McCulloch reviews Olivier Schrauwen Arsène Schrauwen
Bill Kartalopoulos reviews John Hankiewicz’s Education
Feature: America the Beautiful
Ben Railton reviews Allyson Hobbs’s A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America
Beverly Tomek reviews William Heath’s The Children Bob Moses Led: A Novel of Freedom Summer
Book Reviews
John Tytell reviews Atticus Lish’s Preparation for the Next Life
James Tad Adcox reviews Nicholas Rombes’s The Absolutionof Roberto Acestes Laing
Jason Jordan reviews David Connerley Nahm’s Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky
Walter Hess reviews Marilyn Hacker’s A Stranger’s Mirror
Mary Pattice reviews Claudia Smith’s Quarry Light
Elizabeth J. Colen reviews Trevor Dodge’s The Laws of Average
Judith Podell reviews Lisa Birman’s How to Walk Away
Gina MacKenzie reviews S. P. Rosenbaum and James M. Haule’s, eds. The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club
Lindsay Marshall reviews Steven Church Ultrasonic: Essays
Rae Muhlstock reviews Richard McGuire’s Here
Phillip M. Mahoney reviews Andrew Coles’s The Birth of Theory
Elizabeth Kim reviews Alice Friman’s The View from Saturn
Mary Hale reviews Craig Bernier’s Your Life Idyllic
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
