Innovative Fiction by International Women
Volume 30, Number 6
September-October 2009
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Christina Milletti’s Introduction to Focus: Everything Begins with a Yes
Rebecca Goodman reviews Lydia Davis’s The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Christine Hume reviews Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal, a Project for Future Children
Joanna Howard reviews Rikki Ducornet’s The One Marvelous Thing
Angela Szczepaniak reviews Lynne Tillman’s Love Sentence
Jaimy Gordon reviews Magdalena Tulli and trans. Bill Johnston’s Flaw
Julia Elliott reviews Janet Frame’s Towards Another Summer
Dave Kress reviews Mary Caponegro’s All Fall Down
Janet Kauffman reviews Christine Montalbetti and trans. Betsy Wing’s Western
Feature: Philosophy and Fiction
William Flesch reviews Brian Boyd’s On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
Yevgeniya Traps reviews Charlotte Greig’s A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy
Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings
Book Reviews
Teresa Carmody reviews Jessica Treat’s Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters
Steven G. Kellman reviews Jacques Poulin and trans. Sheila Fischman’s Translation is a Love Affair
Kim Chinquee reviews Affinity Konar’s The Illustrated Version of Things
Clay Reynolds reviews Scott Blackwood’s We Agreed to Meet Just Here
Jocelyn Bartkevicius reviews Kathleen Rooney’s Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object
Beverly Tomek reviews Gregory M. Pfitzer Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920
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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.
