Literary Activism
Volume 34, Number 5
July-August 2013
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Manuel Luis Martinez’s Introduction to Focus: “Writers and Activism through Criticism”
Caroline Morris reviews Valerie Martin’s Property and Trespass
David Wright’s “Invisible Boys”
Walter Muyumba reviews John Edgar Wideman’s Briefs: Stories from the Plam of the Mind
Manuel Luis Martinez interviews Jon Wei of “The Telling Project”
Manuel Luis Martinez interviews Jon Wei of “The Telling Project”: Web-exclusive supplement
Christopher Carmona’s “Un Trip to El Valle”
Martin Joseph Ponce reviews Gina Apostol’s Gun Dealers’ Daughter
Feature: American Characters
Megan Milks reviews Kim Gek Lin Short’s China Cowboy
Tara Stillions Whitehead reviews Lary Fondation’s Martyrs and Holymen
Book Reviews
E. Ethelbert Miller reviews Clifford Thompson’s Love for Sale
Alison Gibbons reviews Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Fifty Year Sword
Pat Falk reviews Howard Faerstein’s Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn
Gerald L. Bruns reviews Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s Fra Keeler
Mollie Boutell reviews Courtney Elizabeth Mauk’s Spark
Annalisa Pesek reviews Mark Rutkoski; Vivien Knussi, trans., Words of Love
Evan Steuber reviews Roy Kesey’s Any Deadly Thing
Mike Ingram reviews Gabriel Blackwell’s Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer
Daniel Shapiro reviews Vicente Aleixandre; Stephen Kessler, trans., Poems of Consummation
Beth McDermott reviews Kelly Cherry’s The Life and Death of Poetry
Kat Meads reviews C. James Bye and Jessa Bye, eds., The Way We Sleep
James Tadd Adcox reviews Steven Schwartz’s Little Raw Souls
Departments
Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “A Sense of the Past: Editing in America I”
Related Issues
Focus: Harassment — May / June 2018
Harassment exists on a continuum with violence. The coping mechanisms people cultivate to prevent and deal with harassment become habitual.
Focus: #MeToo — March / April 2019
The #MeToo movement carries the momentum of moments, both sensational and unremarkable, that validate women's experiences of real and ongoing sexual and gender-based violence.
Focus: Civil Rights — March / April 2016
This focus is dedicated to assessing new groups and organizations mobilized for racial justice, formed largely by young Black Americans.
LATEST ISSUE
Focus: Satire — Summer 2024
Satire as threat and joy at the extremes
RECENT ISSUES
Focus: Conspiracy Theories — Spring 2024
Conspiracy theories, disinformation, and meaning-making
Focus: Digital Art — Winter 2023
Aesthetic experience in the digital age
ARCHIVES
Archives: Charles Johnson reviews Richard Wright
Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
