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.
Focus: American World Literature — July / August 2015
nina2022-06-21T21:56:23+00:00Recent American fiction supplies a map partly corresponding to the world as it is and partly referencing a world to come.
Focus: Human Rights — May / June 2015
nina2022-06-21T22:23:36+00:00Human rights perspectives are now merged with stories of ethnicity, sexuality, and cross-cultural identity.
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.
