Focus: Digital Art
Volume 44, Number 4
Winter 2023
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From the Editor
Commerce with Montaigne by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: Digital Art
Introduction by Jessi Rae Morton
Terry Smith reviews Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest by Laura Raicovich
Chris Colvin reviews Counter-Texts: Language in Contemporary Art by Kim Dhillon
Gavin Sourgen reviews The Art of Diremption: On the Powerlessness of Art by Leonhard Emmerling
Rene Marzuk reviews My New Novel/The Down Payment by Ottessa Moshfegh and Issy Wood
No, Alexa: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Art by David Riddle Watson
Interventions
Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Ben Okri
Lost and Found
In Search of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Anthony Madrid
Fiction
John Schertzer reviews Kid Coole by M. G. Stephens and King Ezra by M. G. Stephens
Allan Graubard reviews The Illuminated Burrow by Max Blecher
Edward M. Bury reviews Ride On, See You by Ann McGlinn
Vivian Arimany reviews Mr. President by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Neil D. Isaacs reviews Passing Again by Tom LeClair
Bob Duxbury reviews Twenty Stories by Jack Driscoll
E-feature
The Literary Assistant as Point Guard by E. Ethelbert Miller
Cartography
Point of View and Cognitive Mapping: The Case of Mrs. Dalloway by Robert T. Tally Jr.
Translation
The Translation Stone by Brian O’Keeffe
Poetry
Michael Joyce reviews Foundlings: Found Poems from Prose by DeWitt Henry
Adam Vines reviews Where We Lay Down by Jeffrey Franklin
Patricia Laurence reviews The Place Where Grief Begins by Christopher Hirschmann Brandt
Cory Massaro reviews The Damage Done by Susana H. Case
Christopher Winks reviews A Suite of Dances by Mark Weiss
The Laureates
An Appalachian Voice Speaks for Ohio: A Conversation with Kari Gunter-Seymour by Renee H. Shea
Criticism
Robery T. Tally Jr. reviews Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction by Bruce Robbins
Eckhard Gerdes reviews BRUT: Writings on Art & Artists by Harold Jaffe
Cultural Studies
Josh Polinard reviews The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class by Cynthia Cruz
Printers and Poets
Particularly the Press by Charles Alexander
Scenes
Scenes: Soft Skull Press: An Interview with Mensah Demary
Poetics to Come
Panentheism: Ontology of the Future, or Poetics by Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
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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.
