Genius
Volume 38, Number 3
March-April 2017
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Gina Masucci MacKenzie’s Introduction to Focus: Genius
Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Catherine Malabou, Carolyn Shread, trans. of Before Tomorrow
Robert T. Tally, Jr.’s “An Anagogical Education”
Gina Masucci MacKenzie reviews Lin-Manuel Mirada and Jeremy McCarter’s Hamilton: The Revolution
Daniel Rosenberg Nutters reviews Mark Edmundson’s Why Write?
Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Publishing Genius”
Feature: Cover Lover
Laurel Kallen reivews Pamela L. Laskin’s Ronit & Jamil
Karen Corinne Herceg reviews Jorge Armenteros’s Air
Book Reviews
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright reviews Michael McClure’s Mephistos & Other Poems
Mitch Highfall reviews Michael Gottlieb’s What We Do
Kevin Catalano reviews D. Foy’s Patricide
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Sabra Moore’s Openings
Iris Lee Stoler reviews Daniel Shapiro’s Women at the Cusp of Twilight
Katie James reviews Jaimee Wriston Colbert’s Wild Things
Luanne Smith reviews Valerie Bandura’s Freak Show
Holly Brown reviews Petra Kuppers’s Pearl Stitch
Christopher A.P. Nelson reviews Ron Cooper’s The Gospel of the Twin
Jill Powers reviews Jen George’s The Babysitter at Rest
Marc Jampole reviews Joe Dolce’s Brave New Weed
Departments
Page 2 — Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “The Writer Who Tried to Save the World
From Our Own — Jacob Oliver reviews Joseph D. Haske’s North Dixie Highway
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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.
