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.
Focus: Fiction’s Future — July / August 2009
nina2022-06-25T18:38:09+00:00A rich, diverse, and suggestive range of responses concerning the future of fiction.
Focus: Why Teach Creative Writing? — May / June 2009
nina2022-06-25T18:56:10+00:00Short essays on methods, joys, and agonies of teaching creative writing.
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.
