Focus: Soldier Writing
Volume 43, Number 3
Fall 2022
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From the Editor
The Wild Wild West by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: Soldier Writing
The Challengers by M.C. Armstrong
HED: Afghanistan, Changing Room of Empires by Adrian Bonenberger
Caleb S. Cage reviews Empire City: A Novel by Matt Gallagher
MaxieJane Frazier reviews Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays by Lauren Hough
Colin Cutler reviews Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Sadaawi, trans. Jonathan Wright
Bettina Hindes reviews Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Rape, Rage, and War by Ryan Leigh Dostie
The Forward Operating Base as Heterotopia by Peter Molin
Amalie Flynn reviews Kill Class by Nomi Stone
In Search of the Twenty-First Century’s “Great American Graphic War Novel” by Randy Brown
Tracy Crow reviews Mothers Over Nangarhar by Pamela Hart
There Is Nothing Strange in This at All by Brian Turner
Interventions
Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Christopher Sorrentino
Lost and Found
Announcing Something New: ABR’s “Lost and Found” Series by Anthony Madrid
Fiction
Erin H. Davis reviews The History of America in My Lifetime by Brooks Steritt
Joe Sacksteder reviews A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
Spencer Harrison reviews How the Quiet Breathes by John Michael Flynn
Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Responsible Adults by Patricia Ann McNair
Phill Provance reviews Silverfish by Rone Shavers
Spencer Harrison reviews One of Us: Stories by Scott Nadelson
Em Williamson reviews How Not to Drown by Jaimee Wriston
Matthew Kirkpatrick reviews Interim by Matt Roberson
Richard Squires reviews The Brothers Silver by Marc Jampole
E-Feature
Black Herman and the Rest of Us by E. Ethelbert Miller
Memoir
Biography
Patricia Laurence reviews The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson
Robert Higney reviews Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life by Patricia Laurence
Poetry
Jerry Harp reviews Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts by Nikky Finney
Kit Robinson reviews Digigram by Barbara Henning
Hilary Sideris reviews Outside from the Inside by Anne Whitehouse
Phill Provance reviews The Ministry of Flowers by Andrea Witzke Slot
Jane Rosenberg Laforge reviews Stardust Media by Christina Pugh
Alicia Ostriker reviews Foreign Bodies by Kimiko Hahn
Jeff Wright reviews Typescenes by Rodney A. Brown
Daniel Mendoza reviews (Dis)placement by Esteban Rodriguez
Siobhán Scarry reviews NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) by Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang
Zach Peckham reviews Unsun by Andrew Zawacki
Art
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Poetics of Still Life: A Collage by Robert Vas Dias
Printers and Poets
From our Own
Matthew Roberson reviews Yet to Come by Cris Mazza
Scenes
Desert Palm Press: An Interview with R. Lee Fitzsimmons
Poetics to Come
Apotheosis or Apophrades: Toward a Poetics of Life and Death in Late Stevens by Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
Leaving Archer City: In Memoriam Larry McMurtry by Stephen G. Kellman
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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.
