Multilingual Literature
Volume 35, Number 5
July-August 2014
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Ania Spyra’s Introduction to Focus – Multilingualism Now and Then
Steven G. Kellman’s “¿Qué es Literatura Translingual?”
David Gramling reviews Junot Díaz’sThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Juliana Spahr’s “Multilingual Poetries, NAFTA, and 9/11”
Avishek Ganguly’s “Theatres of Multilingualism”
Christi A. Merrill reviews Laura Brueck’s translation of Ajay Navaria’sUnclaimed Terrain
Feature: Trauma
Tyler Mills reviews Shaindel Beer’sThe Children’s War and Other Poems
Micah Ling reviews Loren Kleinman’sThe Dark Cave Between My Ribs
Andrew Weinstein reviews Richard Burgin’sHide Island: A Novella and 9 Stories
Jay Shearer reviews Jayson IwenGnarly Wounds
Book Reviews
Nathan Floom reviews Roxane Gay’sAn Untamed State
Yuri Tarnawsky reviews Lance Olsen’sTheories of Forgetting
Hilary Sideris reviews Patricia Brody’sDangerous to Know
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Robert Slifkin’s Out of Time
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Michele Battiste’sUprising
Evan Steuber reviews Tsipi Keller’sElsa
Judith Podell reviews Peggy Shinner’sYou Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body
Nikki Paley Cox reviews James Baldwin’sJimmy’s Blues and Other Poems
Kai Krienke reviews Benjamin Hollander’sIn The House Un-American
Jeffrey R. Di Leo reviews George Benson’s with Alan GoldsherBenson: The Autobiography
Jan Garden Castro reviews Mathew Henderson’sThe Lease
Sheldon Compton reviews Shane Jones’sCrystal Eaters
Myrdene Anderson reviews David Vann’sDirt: A Novel
Fred Muratori reviews Phillip Fried’sInterrogating Waters and Other Poems
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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.
