Post-Apocalyptic Literature
Volume 34, Number 2
January-February 2013
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Ashley Dawson’s Introduction to Focus: Apocalypse Now
Rob Latham reviews Colson Whitehead’s Zone One
Tavia Nyong’o’s “Unpacking the Z Survival Kit”
Sukhdev Sandhu reviews Laura Oldfield Ford’s Savage Messiah
Jayna Brown reviews Lauren Beukes Zoo City
Brooks Landon’s “Is Dead the New Alive?”
Lee Quinby reviews Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas
Feature: Exercises in Form
Jeff Bursey reviews Gabriel Josipovici’s Infinity: The Story of a Moment
Diane Goodman reviews Debra Spark’s The Pretty Girl
Kolby Harvey reviews Joanna Ruocco’s Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith
Kolby Harvey’s ABR Interview with Joanna Ruocco
James Tadd Adcox reviews Halvor Aakhus’s Book of Knut: A Novel by Knut Knudson
Trevor Dodge reviews Richard Kalich’s Penthouse F
Book Reviews
Steven Wingate reviews Eric Chevillard, Alyson Waters, trans., Prehistoric Times
W. Lawrence Hogue reviews Keith E. Byerman’s The Life and Art of Clarence Major
Ron Capshaw reviews Richard Crouse’s Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Making of The Devils
Mel Bosworth reviews Patrick Michael Finn’s From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet
Thomas Larson reviews Richard Russo’s Elsewhere
Anne Luyat reviews Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening Mists
Gerald L. Bruns reviews Brandon Brown’s Flowering Mall
Rosalie Calabrese reviews Pamela L. Laskin’s Daring Daughters/Defiant Dreams
Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Douglas Robinson’s Translation and the Problem of Sway
Jay Shearer reviews Michael Nye’s Strategies against Extinction
Anne Derrig reviews Lenore Zion’s Stupid Children
Robert Glick reviews Pamela Ryder’s A Tendency to Be Gone
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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.
