Focus: Literary Nonfiction — March/April 1999
nina2022-07-31T17:42:21+00:00When people want a story, they go to the movies. For prose writers, nonfiction is the area of possibility for the future.
When people want a story, they go to the movies. For prose writers, nonfiction is the area of possibility for the future.
No matter how quickly readers approach, poets breaking new ground are always three steps ahead.
Longing and loss: reviews of erotic literature by Muriel Rukeyser, Anaïs Nin, Odyesseas Elytis, Marcy Sheiner, and Lisa Palac.
Wonderment and horror: reviews of books by David Matlin and Can Xue with essays by Jonathan Cohen, Nicholas Royle, and Laura Mullen.
Marvelous reveries: essays by Rikki Ducornet, Ben Marcus, Rosamund Purcell, and Ann Lauterbach.
Essays by Harish Trivedi, Raji Narasimhan, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Robert Siegle, and Stephen Alter.
Reviews and essays on writing, art, and criticism that renews our systems of reading, writing, publishing, exhibiting, communicating, and distributing art works.
Essays by Warren Motte, Doug Nufer, and Don Webb and review of books by Kenneth Goldsmith, Kristin Prevallet, and Peter Culley.
Great works of children's literature have always been subversive, if not revolutionary.
Gerald Early, Erica Hunt, John O'Brien, Jerry W. Ward, Jr., and Nellie Y. McKay comment on the newly published Norton Anthology of African American Literature.
Essays by Teri Reynolds, N. Katherine Hayles, Franco Moretti, Ursula Heise, Cary Wolfe and Laura Frost with reviews of books by Thomas Pynchon and Jonathan Lethem.
Myth, transformation, and pilgrimage are central to Australian poetry.
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