Literary Activism Part II
Volume 41, Number 4
May-June 2020
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Beth Miller’s Introduction to Focus: Literary Activism
Kyle Bladow reviews Jonathan Safran Foer’s We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Anna McFarlane reviews William Gibson’s Agency
Keith Leslie Johnson reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts
Jay N. Shelat reviews Michel Houellebecq’s Serotonin
Neelofer Qadir reviews Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
Grace Heneks reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer
Erik Peterson reviews Lucy Ellman’s Ducks, Newburyport
Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Wieland review Elvia Wilk’s Oval
Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Wieland’s “Solarpunks & Storytelling in the Capitalocene”
Beth Miller reviews Robert Macfarlane’s Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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