Focus: Prison Writing — March / April 2015
nina2022-06-21T22:12:42+00:00Making sense of the prison-industrial complex’s relationship to and influence on art, literature, film, and cultural theory.
Focus: Comics — January / February 2015
nina2022-06-22T21:38:53+00:00Comics artists produce works of great personal expression, works that coexist uneasily with the market for superhero comics and struggle to gain attention due to the stigma that comics are somehow inherently juvenile or degraded.
Focus: Critical Lives– November / December 2014
nina2022-06-22T21:52:53+00:00To the degree that they compulsively return to the “strange loops” of inscription and transcription, authors' lives have been shaped and driven by their writing habit.
Focus: The Color of Children’s Literature — September / October 2014
nina2022-06-22T22:07:29+00:00In the context of a world where people of color make up from 70% to 83% of the global population, their representation in the genre of children's literature must change.
Focus: Multilingual Literature — July / August 2014
nina2022-06-23T14:46:19+00:00Efforts to expand literary canons have led to a renewed interest in experimentation and the interconnectivity fostered by economic globalization.
Focus: The Sixties at Fifty, Part II — May / June 2014
nina2022-06-23T15:05:11+00:00Postmodern writers celebrate fabulation and play, baroque excess, a metafictive self-consciousness, a darkly mordant wit, and an insistence that human reality is constructed.
Focus: The Sixties at Fifty — March / April 2014
nina2022-07-04T00:26:46+00:00The Sixties generation of writers gave us something simultaneously new and traditional, preserving and extending the anarchistic strain in what ABR founder Ron Sukenick called The Rival Tradition.
Focus: Machine Writing — January / February 2014
nina2022-06-23T15:37:48+00:00Machines with the ability to process natural language are taking on writing assignments that once would have been given to a human.
Focus: Letters — November / December 2013
nina2022-06-23T15:46:51+00:00Letters, perhaps especially the letters of a celebrated author, promise to reveal the subjectivity of their writer in a way that no other form does.
Focus: Sex Writing — September / October 2013
nina2022-06-23T16:39:57+00:00If sex writing is a controversial issue, it is undoubtedly a different one for women writers than for men.
Focus: Literary Activism — July / August 2013
nina2022-06-23T18:06:35+00:00Creative criticism consciously critiques through narratives that provide sociohistorical context and analyze the political, economic, and social issues inherent in that time and place.
Focus: Metamodernism — May / June 2013
nina2022-06-23T20:43:41+00:00Even postmodernism's heyday was a glamorous afterlife, out of sync with itself and practiced as a form of subversive intertextuality. What then is post-postmodernism?
