Focus: Conspiracy Theories
Volume 45, Number 1
Spring 2024
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From the Editor
The Last Dictionary by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: Conspiracy Theories
Introduction by Michael Butter
It’s the Algorithm, Stupid! by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight
E-feature
The Heartbreak of Desire by E. Ethelbert Miller
Lost and Found
An Old Poem That Tells You How to Have Beautiful Children by Anthony Madrid
Fiction
Ken Hada reviews Prize for the Fire: A Novel by Rilla Askew
Leonard Schwartz reviews Forgotten Night by Rebecca Goodman and Lilith Walks by Susan M. Schultz
Edward M. Bury reviews Water Memory: A Novel by Tom Strelich
Cartography
The Nomad in Situ, or, the Man of the Crowd in the Time of COVID by Robert T. Tally Jr.
Translation
Speaking in Translation, or Speaking in Tongues by Brian O’Keeffe
Poetry
Michael Joyce reviews Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand
Hilary Sideris reviews Marvel (the Word) by Ellen Lytle, and: Day True by Roberta Gould
Bonny Finberg reviews When the World Walks toward You by Myra Shapiro
David M. Katz reviews An Alphabet by Henry Weinfield
The Laureates
Theory
Criticism
Will Luers reviews Glitch Poetics by Nathan Allen Jones
Humor
Robert Kramer reviews That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy by Lou Perez
Art
Scenes
Scenes: MadHat Press: An Interview with Marc Vincenz
Poetics to Come
Elegy for Elegy by Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
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