Serious Fiction
Volume 42, Number 4
May / June 2021
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Stephen J. Burn’s Introduction to Focus: Serious Fiction
Toon Staes reviews Karen Tei Yamashita’s Sansei and Sensibility
Beatrice Pire reviews Mary K. Holland’s The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism
Daniel Green reviews Mauro Javier Cárdena’s Aphasia
Yonina Hoffman reviews Lee Siegel’s Typerotica
Tom LeClair reviews Don DeLillo’s The Silence
Jurrit Daalder reviews Charlie Kaufman’s Antkind
Mary K. Holland reviews Adrienne Miller’s In the Land of Men
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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.
