Focus: Memoir Now — March / April 2009
nina2022-06-25T20:51:30+00:00Many contemporary memoirists are concerned as much with how memory works as they are with the memory is recollecting.
Focus: Posthumanism — January / February 2009
nina2022-06-25T21:07:31+00:00Posthumanism calls for a more radical ethics that contests humanism's privileging sameness and exclusion of difference.
Focus: The New South? — November / December 2008
nina2022-06-25T21:23:52+00:00New independent small presses and new voices from the American South.
Focus: The Affective Turn — September / October 2008
nina2022-06-27T15:15:14+00:00Contributions to the critical conversation about affect and emotion, and their place in the public sphere in cultures of the present and past.
Focus: French Caribbean Lit. in Translation– July / August 2008
nina2022-06-27T15:33:06+00:00French Caribbean authors tackle the complexity of their collective history, the alienating experience of assimilation, and the dangers of assuming familiarity.
Focus: Women of Color Publishing — May / June 2008
nina2022-07-18T18:18:17+00:00Women of color founded independent presses to keep their work available in an American publishing market that was willing to ignore them or was actively violent to their interests.
Focus: Jazz & Lit — March / April 2008
nina2022-06-27T21:59:52+00:00The luminous qualities of art—including jazz and literature—are anything but time sensitive.
Focus: 100 Best Last Lines from Novels — January / February 2008
nina2022-06-27T22:02:12+00:00While the cultural and aesthetic standards behind these selections are historic, not transcendental, ABR's list of 100 best last lines provides an index to our culture's current taste and values.
Focus: Dangerous Books — November / December 2007
nina2022-06-27T22:23:07+00:00Dangerous books force us to periodically reassess the scope and quality of our thoughts.
Focus: Perpetual War — September / October 2007
nina2022-06-29T16:53:15+00:00The problem of perpetual war is a problem of representation. Representations of governance have become disassociated from public agency.
Focus: Romanian Poetry in Translation — July / August 2007
nina2022-07-02T21:45:06+00:00Romanians excused their absence from the Cold War literature of protest by pointing to the greatness of their poetry.
Focus: New Lyric Poetry — May / June 2007
nina2022-07-03T14:48:08+00:00The New Lyric is the Old Lyric refashioned, reconstructed, revitalized, rehabilitated, reimagined, reaffirmed, reincarnated, redeployed, renewed.
