Critical Lives
Volume 36, Number 1
November-December 2014
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Henry Sussman’s Introduction to Focus: Writing the Life of Writing – Biography’s Exigency
Adelaide M. Russo reviews Benoît Peeters’s Derrida: A Biography
Richard Deming reviews Stanley Cavell’s Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory
Michael G. Levine reviews Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings’s Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
Henry Sussman reviews Evelyn Barish’s The Double Life of Paul de Man
Jeffrey R. Di Leo reviews Marjorie Perloff’s Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays
Feature: Fractured Families
Kolby Harvey reviews Bonnie ZoBell’s What Happened Here
Judith Podell reviews Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s Swarm to Glory
Lavinia Ludlow reviews Michael J. Seidlinger’s The Fun We’ve Had
Book Reviews
Dinda L. Gorlee reviews Marcel Danesi’s Signs of Crime: Introducing Forensic Semiotics
Myrdene Anderson reviews Will Ottley’s Mountain Garden
Claudia Smith Chen reviews Jac Jemc’s A Different Bed Every Time
Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Julia Kristeva’s Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila
Ellen Handy reviews Katherine A. Broussard and Jackie Higgins’s Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca DiCorcia and The World Atlas of Street Photography
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Emily E. Axelrod’s Minor Injuries
Beth McDermott reviews Alden Jones’s Unaccompanied Minors
Ron Riekki reviews Joe Amato’s Big Man with a Shovel
Duane Niatum reviews Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert’s The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
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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.
