Focus: Weak Theory — Spring 2023
nina2025-02-12T15:08:26+00:00Weak theory is a relatively recent concept that has emerged explicitly in the debates surrounding surface reading and affect aesthetics.
Focus: The New Campus Novel — Winter 2022
nina2025-02-12T15:08:26+00:00New campus novels often center on the experiences of graduate students rather than professors, offering new perspectives, identities, and hierarchies.
Focus: Soldier Writing — Fall 2022
nina2025-02-12T15:08:27+00:00Like the Beats and like “The Lost Generation,” the post-9/11 soldier-writers cannot be appreciated without a reckoning with their generation’s war.
Focus: Autofiction and Autotheory — Summer 2022
nina2025-02-12T15:08:28+00:00Autofiction has been conceived of as a hybrid genre, mixing the referential and the fictional. Autotheory is aimed against the conventions of academic discourse, often having a manifesto-like quality.
Focus: Pandemic Poetry — Spring 2022
nina2025-02-12T15:08:28+00:00Online publications, Zoom readings, and numerous themed issues in literary magazines, anthologies, and collections offer a powerful poetic testimony of the pandemic.
Focus: Critical Pleasure — September / October 2021
nina2025-02-12T15:08:29+00:00Volume 42, Number 6 features a focus on Critical Pleasure and a feature on J. Hillis Miller.
Focus: Detective Fiction — July / August 2021
nina2025-02-12T15:08:33+00:00Detective Fiction constantly adapts, not only to entertainment tastes but to philosophical concerns of the day.
Focus: Serious Fiction — May / June 2021
nina2025-02-12T15:08:35+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
nina2025-02-12T15:08:36+00:00The canon in question. American Book Review contributors interrogate the American canon and the notion of canonization.
Focus: Girlhood — January / February 2021
nina2025-02-12T15:08:36+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
nina2025-02-12T15:08:37+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
nina2025-02-12T15:08:38+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.
