Focus: Cosmopolitanism — March / April 2007

Cosmopolitanism

Volume 28, Number 3
March-April 2007

Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.

Christian Moraru’s “Introduction to Focus: Postmodernism, Cosmopolitanism, Cosmodernism”

Jeffrey R. Di Leo reviews Rebecca L. Walkowitz’s Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation

Terry Caesar reviews Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day

Philip Metres reviews Timothy Brennan’s Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right

Martin S. Kenzer reviews David Harvey’s Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development

Christian Moraru reviews Seyla Benhabib’s Another Cosmopolitanism and David Cowart’s Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America

Feature: The Beats Go On

Eric Miles Williamson reviews eds. Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters’s Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression

Davis Schneiderman reviews Rob Johnson’s The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas

Feature: Celebrating National Poetry Month

Kevin Prufer reviews Taha Muhammad Ali’s So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005

Nicky Beer reviews trans. Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown’s The Plural of Happiness: Selected Poems of Herman de Coninck

J.D. Smith reviews Michael Waters and Wayne Miller’s Darling Vulgarity and Only the Senses Sleep

Barbara Duffey reviews S. A. Stepanek’s Three, Breathing

Andrew Kozma reviews Susan B. A. Somers-Willett’s Roam

Derek Pollard reviews Rebecca Loudon’s Navigate, Amelia Earhart’s Letters Home

Man Martin reviews Mike Dockins’s Slouching in the Path of the Comet

Larry Smith reviews Anne Waldman’s Outrider: Poems, Essays, Interviews

Helane Levine-Keating reviews Pat Falk’s It Happens As We Speak: A Feminist Poetics

Book Reviews

John Domini reviews Brian Evenson’s The Open Curtain

Stacey Levine reviews Lynne Tillman’s American Genius, A Comedy

Mark Budman reviews ed. Dave Eggers’s The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006

Roch C. Smith reviews Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jasper Johns’s The Target

Adele King reviews Gisèle Pineau’s Devil’s Dance

Michael Leone reviews William J.Cobb’s Goodnight, Texas

Arthur Saltzman reviews Marc Estrin’s Golem Song

Sean Bernard reviews Henry Grinberg’s Variations on the Beast

Lorena Sandra reviews Barbara Milberg Fisher’s In Balanchine’s Company: A Dancer’s Memoir

Tiphanie Yanique reviews Ben Fountain’s Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

Carol Wierzbicki reviews Richard Ford’s The Lay of the Land

Departments

Page2-From the Editors

Rants & Raves: Letter to the Editors

Backlist-Rajni George reviews Deirdre Madden’s Authenticity