“Best of” Anthologies
Volume 27, Number 4
May-June 2006
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Sean Bernard’s “Introduction to Focus: The, Um, “Best”
Kevin Clouther reviews Jane Smiley’s Best New American Voices 2006
Christopher Coake reviews Laura Furman’s The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005
Kerry Egan reviews Susan Orlean’s The Best American Essays 2005
Genevieve Kaplan reviews Paul Muldoon’s Best American Poetry 2005
Chad Chmielowicz reviews Bill Henderson’s The Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses, 2006
Hugh Ferrer reviews Joyce Carol Oates’s The Best American Mystery Stories 2005
Tom Williams reviews Shannon Ravenel’s New Stories from the South
Alex Ruskell reviews Dave Eggers’s The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
Pete Coco reviews Michael Chabon’s The Best American Short Stories 2005
Feature: postmodern Evolution
Kristin Dykstra reviews Harry Mathews’s My Life in CIA
Tom LeClair reviews Stephen Wright’s The Amalgamation Polka
Michael Griffith reviews George Saunders’s The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Feature: Inventions Noir
Elizabeth Hatmaker reviews Neal Pollack’s Chicago Noir
John Domini reviews Edward Falco’s Wolf Point
Ryan Smith reviews Jim Miller’s Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana
Wedge
Beth Bretl’s “’Vent: Woodland Pattern’s 25th Anniversary Celebration”
Kyle Kaufman’s Chaps: Sara M. Larsen’s Doubly Circulatory
Jim Andrews’s Site: Net Art at turbulence.org
Alain Arias-Misson’s Show: John Giorno’s “Millions of Stars Coming into My Heart Welcome Home”
Book Reviews
Leora Lev reviews Richard Hell’s Godlike
Sidney Feshbach reviews John Berger’s Here Is Where We Meet
Gary Lenhart reviews Kenneth Burke’s Late Poems: 1968-1993
Elizabeth Robinson reviews Janet Rodney’s Moon on an Oarblade Rowing
Jim Feast reviews Matt Briggs’s The Moss Gatherers
Laurel Blossom reviews Sandy McIntosh’s The After-Death History of My Mother
J. Kates reviews Frank Bidart’s Star Dust
Jeff Wiederkehr reviews Greil Marcus’s Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Wayne Miller reviews Richard Siken’s Crush
Michael Mejia reviews Ander Monson’s Other Electricities
Karla Huston reviews Pamela Gemin’s Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework
Susan M. Schultz reviews Laura Mullen’s Subject
Facet: Republics of Resistance
Aldon Lynn Nielsen reviews Pascale Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters
Facet: Somewhat East of West
Christian Moraru reviews Mircea Cărtărescu’s Nostalgia
Douglas Messerli reviews Mati Unt’s Things in the Night
Departments
Backlist-Robert Doto reviews Thalia Field’s Incarnate: Story Material
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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.
