Focus: Short Takes — January/February 2000
nina2022-07-29T23:30:33+00:00Reviews of short story collections by Ken Kalfus, Joanna H. Woś, Lucia Berlin, Rick DeMarinis, Stephen Dixon, and Harold Jaffe.
Focus: African American Fiction — November/December 1999
nina2022-07-29T23:28:56+00:00Reviews of fiction by John A. Williams, John Edgar Wideman, Trey Ellis, and Ralph Ellison with an essay by Gabrielle Daniels.
Focus: Thematic Anthologies — September/October 1999
nina2022-07-31T17:11:00+00:00Reviews of thematic anthologies on therapy, American identity, language, gay poetry, and Peace Corps service.
Focus: Reissues — July/August 1999
nina2022-07-31T17:09:42+00:00Books have shorter and shorter "shelf lives" before publishers recall them; online publishing and books-on-demand can help maintain access to these publications.
Focus: Life Studies — May/June 1999
nina2022-07-31T17:20:52+00:00Reviews of biographies of Paul Bowles, Mary Butts, Serge Gainsbourg, Harry Partch, and Iris Murdoch.
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.
Focus: American Ex-Po — January/February 1999
nina2022-07-31T17:41:22+00:00No matter how quickly readers approach, poets breaking new ground are always three steps ahead.
Focus: Erotic Lit — November/December 1998
nina2022-07-31T17:55:14+00:00Longing and loss: reviews of erotic literature by Muriel Rukeyser, Anaïs Nin, Odyesseas Elytis, Marcy Sheiner, and Lisa Palac.
Focus: The Monstrous and the Marvelous, Part 2 — September/October 1998
nina2022-07-31T18:54:52+00:00Wonderment and horror: reviews of books by David Matlin and Can Xue with essays by Jonathan Cohen, Nicholas Royle, and Laura Mullen.
Focus: The Monstrous and the Marvelous — July/August 1998
nina2022-07-31T21:37:06+00:00Marvelous reveries: essays by Rikki Ducornet, Ben Marcus, Rosamund Purcell, and Ann Lauterbach.
Focus: A View from India — May/June 1998
nina2022-07-31T22:14:37+00:00Essays by Harish Trivedi, Raji Narasimhan, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Robert Siegle, and Stephen Alter.
Focus: Hacker Art / Hyper Crit — March/April 1998
nina2022-07-31T22:33:34+00:00Reviews and essays on writing, art, and criticism that renews our systems of reading, writing, publishing, exhibiting, communicating, and distributing art works.
