Thematic Anthologies
Volume 20 Number 6
September-October, 1999
FOCUS: ANTHOLOGIES
An Introduction: The In Crowd: Thematic Antholigies
Rochelle Ratner
Mind Games
Rika Lesser reviews On the Couch: Great American Stories About Therapy edited by Erica Kates
Same Difference
Fred Muratori reviews Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan
Ghost Dance
Joe Napora reviews Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours edited by Diane Glancy and Mark Nowak
After Babel
JR Foley reviews Imagining Language: An Anthology edited by Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery
Rescuing the Homosexual Aesthetic (From Itself?)
Andrew Grossman reviews A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry edited by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard
Pointless to Ponder
Joe Maynard reviews Fetish: An Anthology edited by John Yau
The Poetics of Adventure
Gail Gilliland reviews Living on the Edge: Fiction by Peace Corps Writers edited by John Coyne
FEATURE: NATURE STUDIES
The Greening of Anarchism
J.D. Connor reviews Green Cultural Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory by Jhan Hochman
Call to Life
Trey Strecker reviews Nature Studies by John Henry Ryskamp
FEATURE: FUTURE IMPERFECT
Dumbing Down the Future
Chris Rutledge reviews Navigating the Future: A Personal Guide to Achieving Success in the New Millennium by Mikela Tarlow with Philip Tarlow
Themepark Living
James Ryan reviews Crossing the Expendable Landscape by Bettina Drew
In Transit
Adrian Zupp reviews Futures by Ken Edwards
Book Reviews
Sentiment and Sentimentality
Jefferey C. Sugarman reviews A Frieze for a Temple of Love by Edward Field
Looking for a Splibby
Ricardo Cortez Cruz reviews Prisoners by Wayne Karlin
Retrofitting Genre to Cure Gender
Jill Nagle reviews A Good Cuntboy is Hard to Find by Doug Rice
Hard Truths
Rick Pernod reviews After All by William Matthews
I Have Dreamed a Dream. . .
Henry Grinberg reviews Night Errands: How Poets Use Dreams edited by Roderick Townley
Bedside Reading
Donna Reis reviews Gift by Hugh Ogden
Remaining American
Leslie Schenk reviews Turning Japanese by David Galef
The Common Thing That is Anonymously About Us
Barbara Einzig reviews American Rush: Selected Poems by Maureen Owen
Bulging with Information, Grating with Insistence
Miriam Levine reviews Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler by Thylias Moss
The Open Field
Krysia Jopek reviews Lost Wax by Heather Ramsdell
The Aesthetics of Activism
Barbara Hoffert reviews Zapata’s Disciple: Essays by Martín Espada
Dostoyevsky via Richard Pryor
Bob Blaisdell reviews Living for the City by Jervey Tervalon
From the Backlist
Whither the Avant-Garde?
Michael Fujimoto Keezing reviews An ABC of Contemporary Reading by Richard Kostelanetz and Modernism Since Postmodernism: Essays on Intermedia by Dick Higgins
Departments
Picketing the Zeitgeist
The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits by Larry McCaffery
Rants and Raves
Letters to the Editor
ABR: The Year in Review
Index to Volume 20
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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.