Focus: In and Out Books — July / August 2011
nina2022-06-24T16:36:46+00:00Today's fashion becomes yesterday's failure; yesterday's failure is today's fashion. Overlooked or overrated literary and critical gems are only visible with hindsight.
Focus: Uncreative Writing — May / June 2011
nina2022-06-24T16:51:13+00:00Uncreative writing is the appropriation of previously produced material, taking something out of its original context and putting it forth as art by reproducing it in another context.
Focus: The Latino West — March / April 2011
nina2022-06-24T18:07:13+00:00The Latino West traces the achievements of Mexican American writers and show the wide range of perspectives found within the Mexican American community.
Focus: The Other Sci-Fi — January / February 2011
nina2022-06-24T18:09:23+00:00Over the last few years, writers belonging to cultures that have been colonized by imperialist powers have generated an explosion of work in the worlds of science fiction and fantasy writing.
Focus: Environmental Humanities — November / December 2010
nina2022-06-24T18:23:55+00:00Literary ecocritics have interrogated the environmentalist use of genres such as pastoral and apocalypse to structure stories about the decline of nature under the impact of modern society.
Focus: Cognitive Fictions — September / October 2010
nina2022-06-24T20:30:56+00:00Our minds continually undergo processes of construction, revision, recognition, selective input, and self-reflection. The fictive qualities of mental experience are apparent even during ordinary acts of perception.
Focus: LineonLine — July / August 2010
nina2022-06-24T20:48:30+00:00Started in January 2008 and ending June 2009, LineOnLine was a review feature published exclusively online.
Focus: Micropresses — May / June 2010
nina2022-06-24T21:22:14+00:00The small presses highlighted here are generally the brainchildren of founders who are themselves writers, who have formed presses for the purpose of publishing writers whose work they believe in.
Focus: Poetry without Walls — March / April 2010
nina2022-06-24T21:37:34+00:00Poetry without walls celebrates a community where a rigorous and productive exchange of ideas and information about the work itself is the norm.
Focus: Top 40 Bad Books — January / February 2010
nina2022-06-24T21:52:05+00:00What constitutes a "bad" book? The answers here demonstrate the sheer variety of responses to what at face value seems a simple question.
Focus: Essential Asian American Literature — November / December 2009
nina2022-06-24T22:03:41+00:00Numerous anthologies and scholarships announced their intention to expand the boundary of Asian American literature to encompass different ethnic origins, nationalities, sexualities, genders, and histories.
Focus: Innovative Fiction by International Women — September / October 2009
nina2022-06-25T16:49:35+00:00Women writers rethinking how fiction can be shaped and how language can disrupt and enhance our perceptions.
