Japanese Literature and Culture
Volume 28, Number 1
November-December 2006
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K. Malcolm Richards’s “Introduction to Focus: Noh Man’s Land”
William T. Vollmann’s “Essay: A Branch of Flowers”
Andrew Ervin reviews Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Paul D’ Agostino reviews Miyuki Miyabe’s Crossfire
Kara Mason reviews Uchida Hyakken’s Realm of the Dead
Jeff Gburek reviews ed. Yoshiyuki Suzuki’s Improvised Music from Japan 2005
Neal Pollack reviews Nobuo Kojima’s Embracing Family
Feature: Art and Theory
Brian McHale reviews Jerome McGann’s The Scholar’s Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World
James Schiff reviews James R. Giles’s The Spaces of Violence
Elisabeth Frost reviews Alan Gilbert’s Another Future: Poetry and Art in a postmodern Twilight
Book Reviews
Steven Moore reviews Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture
Jerome Klinkowitz reviews Stephen Dixon’s End of I.
Kevin Prufer reviews Catherine Bowman’s Notarikon
James M. Mellard reviews Lance Olsen’s Nietzsche’s Kisses
Charles Marowitz reviews Jared Brown’s Moss Hart: A Prince of the Theatre
Davis Schneiderman reviews William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg’s The Yage Letters Redux
Stephen Burn reviews Tom LeClair’s The Liquidators
Victoria Frenkel Harris reviews Robert Bly’s My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy
Robert L. McLaughlin reviews Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Wayne Miller reviews Joshua Poteat’s Ornithologies
Stacey Gottlieb reviews Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country
Bruce King reviews Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English, August
Mark Budman reviews Karen Russell’s St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Larry Smith reviews Jim Harrison’s Saving Daylight
Paula Koneazny reviews David Bromige and Rychard Denner’s Spade
Departments
Backlist- Karen Alkalay-Gut reviews Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s No Heaven
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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.
