Focus: Postcritique — July / August 2017
nina2022-06-18T21:17:18+00:00Postcritique represents a method and a moment—both for the practice of reading and for the discipline of literary studies.
Focus: Writers People Love to Hate — May / June 2017
nina2022-06-18T21:15:24+00:00Aesthetic disagreements have a long and spectacular history of bile and hatred. But literary study has become a war of political ideology rather than a dialogue concerning aesthetics.
Focus: Genius — March / April 2017
nina2022-06-20T15:57:12+00:00The intangible, ineffable qualities of genius compel us to ponder its nature and presentation. Genius can't be held, caught, or simply spoken. It is the essence of a person.
Focus: Corporate Fictions — January / February 2017
nina2022-06-21T15:28:56+00:00The corporate fictions of our current generation of literary authors offer something other than critique and something more interesting than satire.
Focus: Native American Writing — November / December 2016
nina2022-06-21T16:09:40+00:00Writing addressing the diverse experiences of female, male, two-spirit native people, living both on and off the reservation, from urban and rural communities across the United States and Canada.
Focus: Geocriticism — September / October 2016
nina2022-06-21T16:52:17+00:00The experiential and structural “time-space compression” experienced in postmodern societies has brought matters of space, place, and mapping to the fore in social theory, cultural studies, and literary studies.
Focus: Experimental Writing — July / August 2016
nina2022-06-21T17:03:52+00:00Experimental writers writers cultivate, cajole, inveigle, tyrannize, lionize, and seduce their readers, turn and turn about.
Focus: Intersex Writing — May / June 2016
nina2022-06-21T20:23:05+00:00The literature of intersex asks us to think about how we might change our understandings of sex, embodiment, gender, sexuality, and medical ethics and practice.
Focus: Civil Rights — March / April 2016
nina2022-06-21T20:42:41+00:00This focus is dedicated to assessing new groups and organizations mobilized for racial justice, formed largely by young Black Americans.
Focus: Big Novels — January / February 2016
nina2022-06-21T20:51:34+00:00The comeback of macronarrative as a print phenomenon is likely part of a broader shift that responds to the new network culture.
Focus: Working Class Fiction — November / December 2015
nina2022-06-21T21:04:46+00:00Contributors choose a dead author and a living author, both "working class," and write about the two.
Focus: Little India — September / October 2015
nina2022-06-21T21:48:45+00:00As the finest achievements of literary modernism reveal, the most exciting life of cosmopolitanism is paradoxically embodied in its provincial incarnation.
