Perpetual War
Volume 28, Number 6
September-October 2007
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Robin Truth Goodman’s and Barry J. Faulk’s “Introduction to Focus: Perpetual War”
Adam Tobias Schrag reviews Mike Davis’s Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
Masood Raja reviews Michael A. Palmer’s The Last Crusade: Americanism and the Islamic Reformation
Feature: Translating Epic Poetry
Paul Oppenheimer reviews Virgil’s The Aeneid
Book Reviews
Steven Shaviro reviews William Gibson’s Spook Country
Gary Hawkins reviews Cynthia Hogue’s The Incognito Body
David Anshen reviews Norman Mailer’s The Castle in the Forest
Charles Marowitz reviews Robert Brustein’s Millennial Stages: Essays and Reviews 2001–2005
Fred Muratori reviews Harryette Mullen’s Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge
Mary V. Dearborn reviews Lois Gordon’s Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
Mark Wallace reviews Trevor Dodge’s Everyone I Know Lives on Roads
Duane Niatum reviews David Treuer’s Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual
Departments
Rants & Raves: Letters to the Editors (Peter Connors responds, Peter Bricklebank rebuts)
Picketing the Zeitgeist -War and the Form of Writing by R. M. Berry
Volume 28 Index
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