A View from India
Volume 19 Number 4
May-June 1998
FOCUS: A View From India
An Introduction: Straight From India
Ronald Sukenick
Shiva Meets Godzilla. . .
Robert Siegle
Of Books and Borders
Stephen Alter
Small Urdu and Less Hindi: Rebutting Rushdie
Harish Trivedi
The Reach of Hindi Fiction
Raji Narasimhan
Literatures of India: The Local and the Global
Meenakshi Mukherjee
Two Contemporary Bengali Novelists
Narayan Mukherji
FEATURE: Insider Art
Prison Art in America
Fielding Dawson reviews Phyllis Kornfeld’s Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America
FEATURE: The Literary Essay
The Closeness of Kin and the Desire to Wander
Kate Madden reviews Kat Meads’s Born Southern and Restless
Everywhere and Nowhere
Bob Blaisdell reviews Steven Harvey’s Lost In Translation
Book Reviews
James Hatch reviews Meter in English: A Critical Engagement, edited by David Baker, and Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, edited by Mark Jarman and David Mason
Sal Salasin reviews Denise Duhamel’s Kinky
Leora Lev reviews Dennis Cooper’s Guide
John Jacob reviews Philip Lamantia’s Bed of Sphinxes: New and Selected Poems, 1943-1993
Rikki Ducornet reviews Doris G. Bargen’s A Woman’s Weapon: Spirit Possession in the Tale of Genji and Mursaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.
Miriam Levine reviews Edward Nobles’s Through One Tear and Cathleen Calbert’s Lessons in Space
Victor Bradley reviews Greil Marcus’s Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes
Barry Wallenstein reviews Edgar M. Branch’s Studs Lonigan’s Neighborhood and the Making of James T. Farrell
Jason Weiss reviews Richard Foreman’s No-Body: a novel in parts
Ronald Bogue reviews New Novel Review 4.1 (Fall 1996), The Bi-annual Fiction Collection: New Works by Established and Emerging Writers, edited by Ben Stoltzfus
Frank Allen reviews Dick Allen’s Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected
Saul N. Brody reviews Leslie Ross’s Medieval Art: A Topical Dictionary
Judy Michaels reviews Jane Miller’s Memory at These Speeds: New & Selected Poems
Joe Napora reviews Maggie Jaffe’s How the West Was One, art by Deborah Small
Kenneth Warren reviews Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Far Rockaway of the Heart
Jonathan Curelop reviews Lucia Nevai’s Normal
Departments
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Richard Kostelanetz
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