Focus: The New Campus Novel — Winter 2022

Focus: The New Campus Novel

Volume 43, Number 4
Winter 2022

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From the Editor

The Cabinetmaker’s Apprentice by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Focus: The New Campus Novel

Introduction: The New Campus Novel  by Matthew Roberson

Millenial Fiction Meets the Campus Novel by Jeffrey J. Williams

Rachel L. E. Klammer reviews Notes on a Thesis by Tiphaine Rivière

Specters of Bloom by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Julie Schumacher reviews All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang

Marta J. Lysik reviews The Friend: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez

Peter Faziani reviews Fight for Your Long Day by Alex Kudera

Emad Mirmotahari reviews How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position by Tabish Khair

Interventions

Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Daniel Olivas

E-feature

Poetry and Diplomacy: When the Heart Wants to Cry by Indran Amirthanayagam

Lost and Found

Anthony Madrid reviews Finnish Folk Poetry, Epic: An Anthology in Finnish and English ed. by Matt Kuusi, Keith Bosley, and Michael Branch

Fiction

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews To Zenzi by Robert L. Schuster

Liana V. Andreasen reviews The Final Yen by R. Sebastian Bennett

Lisa Slage Robinson Spinning to Mars by Meg Pokrass

Robert L. Shuster reviews The Archeology of a Good Ragù: Discovering Naples, My Father, and Myself by John Domini

Voyo Gabrilo Dearth by Lynda Schor

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Everyman by M Shelly Conner

Laura Jok reviews Mannequin and Wife and Tales the Devil Told Me by Jen Fawkes

Memoir

Nathan Dragon reviews Saturation Project by Christine Hume

Criticism

Blake Stricklin reviews Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker by McKenzie Wark

Poetry

Kathryn Weld reviews Letters Written and Not Sent: Poems by William Louis-Dreyfus

Phill Provance Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong

Helane Levine-Keating reviews The Marble Bed by Grace Schulman

Hila Ratzabi reviews Mother Country by Elana Bell

Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews All Morning the Crows by Meg Kearney

Ilka Scobie reviews Boneyarn by David Mills

Kathryn Pratt Russell reviews Little Armageddon by Gregory Fraser

Larry Price reviews Thought Balloon by Kit Robinson

Laura C. Stevenson reviews The Blue-Collar Sun by Lucas Farrell

Lynn McGee reviews Any Island by Ilka Scobie

Meg Kearney reviews The Bold News of Birdcalls by Edward Morin

Phill Provance reviews The Era of Discontent by Brianna Noll

Patricia Carragon reviews Safe as Lightning by Scudder H. Parker

Thomas C. Marshall reviews Peaches and Gravy: Selected Poems, 1966–2016 by Larry Fagin

Drama

R. Sebastian Bennett reviews Strange Fruit & Other Plays by Harold Jaffe

Art

David Riddle Watson interviews Radu Oreian

Biography

Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Venus Betrayed: The Private World of Édouard Vuillard by Julia Frey

Thomas C. Marshall reviews A Life of Olson & a Sequence of Glyphs on Points of his Life, Work & Times ed. by Sanders

Printers and Poets

In the Printshop / With Young Poets by Charles Alexander

Scenes

Saraband: An Interview with Sara Hunt

Poetics to Come

Losing Democracy: Politics and Poetics in Three of D. H. Lawrence’s Postwar Novels by Robert L. Caserio

The Departed

“And, I Know Things Now”: A Tribute to Sondheim by Gina Masucci MacKenzie