Focus: The Love/Sex Explosion — October-November 1994

The Love/Sex Explosion

Volume 16 Number 4
October-November 1994

PICKETING THE ZEITGEIST

PUBLISHING, 2001
Ronald Sukenick

VIDEO

TO DESTROY WHAT CAN BE SEEN
Brooks Landon reviews WAX or the discovery of television among the bees by David Blair

DRAMA

VAUDEVILLE IS THE MATRIX
Charles Marowitz reviews From the Bowery to Broadway by Armond Fields and L. Marc Fields

FOCUS: THE LOVE/SEX EXPLOSION

EROS AND US
Barry Wallenstein

ME, YOU, HUGH, AND THE ANTEATER
Peter Michelson reviews The Jaguar and the Anteater by Bemard Arcand, translated by Wayne Grady

IS THERE SEX AFTER SAPPHO?
Paul Oppenheimer reviews The Literary Companion to Sex, edited by Fiona Pitt-Kethley

“LIBERATING” PORNOGRAPHY FOR WOMEN
Laura Hinton reviews Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power, edited by Pamela Church Gibson and Roma Gibson

TRYING TO SEDUCE HERSELF
Margaret Diehl

PORN WARRIORS
Laurie Ouellette reviews Only Words by Catharine A. MacKinnon and Letters from a War Zone by Andrea Dworkin

FOLKS AT INTIMATE PLAY
Lydie Moudileno reviews Erotique Noire/Black Erotica, edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Reginald Martin, and Roseann P. Bell

A WHlTER SHADE OF BARF
Jill St. Jacques reviews Whores of Lost Atlantis by Charles Busch

SEEN AND UNSEEN DANGERS
Kathleen Heideman reviews That Kind of Danger by Donna Masini

FEATURE: AFRICA

WITHHELD MEANINGS, CODED TEXTS, AND SUBVERSION
Lynda Koolish reviews Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 by Frances Smith Foster

FEATURE: LITCRIT

APPLICABLE TO THE U.S. CASE
Wayne Zittel reviews Power Plays, Power Works by John Fiske

BOOK REVIEWS

AT USEFUL PLAY
Linda Wagner-Martin reviews The Restorationist: Text One by Jael B. Juba

GONNE AND YEATS AND “BURKE’S GREAT MELODY”
M. L. Rosenthal reviews The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893-1938, edited by Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares and The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O’Brien

MORE THAN BLOOD AND HISTORY
Lee Montgomery reviews The Brooklyn Book of the Dead by Michael Stephens

EXPERIMENTAL VARIATIONS
Carl L. Bankston III reviews Paris When It’s Naked by Etel Adnan and Djbot Baghostus’s Run by Nathaniel Mackey

MEDIA-DOCTORED IMAGES
Dennis Formento reviews Airing Dirty Laundry by Ishmael Reed

KAMIKAZE-ASSISTED SUICIDE
Don Webb reviews a kamikaze in her eyes by Peter Plate

LITERARY AT FIRST GLANCE
John Jacob reviews Unfinished Building: Poems by Toby Olson

FAST-PACED AND SPICY YARNING
Vicki Weissman reviews The Trick Is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway and Under the Silk Cotton Tree by Jean Buffong

CHOOSING WORDS OVER LIFE
Fanny Howe reviews The Passersby by Liliane Atlan, translated by Rochelle Owens

THE RE-INVENTION OF AFRICA
Adélékè Adéèkó reviews The Rift by V.Y. Mudimbe, translated by Marjolijn de Jager

DESIRE TO COMMEMORATE
Robert Peters reviews The Andrew Poems by Shelly Wagner

MOOD SWINGS
David Kirby reviews Sesame by Jack Marshall and Every Room We Ever Slept In by Jason Shinder

A MAN IN BLUE
Joseph Conte reviews Collected Poems by James Schuyler

PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
Richard Seymour reviews Pursuit of Ecstasy by Jerome Beck and Marsha Rosenbaum and E for Ecstasy by Nicholas Saunders

STORIES AND ANTISTORIES
David R. Slavitt reviews Stories from My Life with the Other Animals by James McConkey and Noble Rot: Stories 1949-1988 by Richard Stern

STRONGER THAN SEX
Paul A. Trout reviews Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars by Marjorie Heins

TRICKSTER FIGURES
Jeff Abernathy reviews Indi’n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America by Kenneth Lincoln