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
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
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
Printers and Poets
In the Printshop / With Young Poets by Charles Alexander
Scenes
Saraband: An Interview with Sara Hunt
Poetics to Come
The Departed
“And, I Know Things Now”: A Tribute to Sondheim by Gina Masucci MacKenzie
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