Focus: Serious Fiction — May / June 2021
nina2022-06-15T21:43:42+00:00As the rise of nationalist politics, intolerance, and extremism continues across the West, it may well be time for literature to get serious again.
Focus: American Canon — March / April 2021
nina2022-06-15T21:46:17+00:00The canon in question. American Book Review contributors interrogate the American canon and the notion of canonization.
Focus: Girlhood — January / February 2021
nina2022-06-16T21:32:11+00:00Even when we recognize girls, it seems, we only look obliquely at them. In this issue, contributors review works that amplify, contest, and celebrate ideas about girlhood.
Focus: Cybernetics — November / December 2020
nina2022-06-16T21:44:11+00:00Reviews of books addressing cultural impact of cyber-technology and concepts including recursivity, analog-digital shuttling, isomorphic coding, and autopoietic progression.
Focus: YA Fiction — September / October 2020
nina2022-06-16T21:12:42+00:00Contemporary YA authors create absorbing and intellectually rich teen protagonists whose intersectional identities and experiences vitally disrupt racial, sexual, gender, cognitive, physical, class, cultural, and geographic stereotypes.
Focus: What is a Book? — July / August 2020
nina2022-06-16T22:05:55+00:00The book is a slippery and malleable object, an interface that has changed with time and geography to meet the needs of readers, writers, and the societies they inhabit.
Focus: Literary Activism Part II — May / June 2020
nina2022-06-16T20:58:10+00:00Can literature inspire effective, ethical, and productive thoughts, actions, and habits, especially regarding environmental concerns?
Focus: Burroughs Now — March / April 2020
nina2022-06-16T19:17:17+00:00To read Burroughs as a writer that wrote obscene skits overlooks the larger critique his writing makes on the developing communication technologies of the twentieth century.
Focus: Latinx — January / February 2020
nina2022-06-22T22:09:24+00:00Latinx authors distill and reconstruct, in awe-inspiring and infinitely nuanced ways, the great complexity of Latinx identity.
Focus: Speculative Fiction — November / December 2019
nina2022-06-15T21:38:10+00:00There's something thrilling about stepping into a world that we at once recognize, and that is fantastically and superlatively new.
Focus: The App Issue — September / October 2019
nina2022-06-16T19:44:20+00:00Lack of communication, technological failure, and a misplaced sense of superiority has led to catastrophe and massive disruptions of human societies. But imagine if we could actually quantify and learn from our mistakes?
Focus: The Ordinary — July / August 2019
nina2022-06-17T14:30:10+00:00Familiarity, so it seems, breeds indifference. We overlook, consciously and unconsciously, the very things and experiences that are most determining of what we call our daily life.
