American World Literature
Volume 36, Number 5
July-August 2015
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Paul Giles reviews Annabel Patterson’sThe International Novel
W. Lawrence Hogue review Jhumpa Lahiri’s and Berthod Schoene’sThe Lowlandand
Paul Jay reviews Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s Panic in a Suitcase
Matthew Mullins reviews Joseph O’Neills’s The Dog
Alison Gibbons reviews Dave Egger’s The Circle
Amy J. Elias reviews William Gibson’s The Peripheral
Lou F. Caton reviews Azar Nafisi’s The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
