Metamodernism
Volume 34, Number 4
May-June 2013
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Christian Moraru’s Introduction to Focus: “Thirteen Ways of Passing Postmodernism”
Daniel Burns reviews George Saunder’s Tenth of December
Caren Irr reviews Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King
Mary K. Holland reviews Don DeLillo’s Point Omega
Alan Kirby reviews Jennifer Egan’s “Black Box”
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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.
