Focus: Critical Pleasure
Volume 42, Number 6
September / October 2021
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Gina Masucci MacKenzie’s Introduction to Focus: The Drive Beyond Pleasure
Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Daniel Mendelsohn’s Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
Jeffrey R. Di Leo — Critical Pleasure under Late Capitalism
Jean-Michel Rabaté — Uncritical Pleasure and Critical Jouissance
Feature: For Hillis
Henry Sussman — World Without Hillis
Tom Cohen — The Hand and the Dog — Hillis Miller’s Secret Power
Dragan Kujundžić — Breathless — In Memory of J. Hillis Miller
Sigi Jöttkandt — Hillis Malheur, Open Case
Book Reviews
Jan Garden Castro reviews Juan Felipe Herrera’s Every Day We Get More Illegal
Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Ander Monson’s The Gnome Stories
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Michael Heller’s Telescope: Selected Poems
Lem Coley reviews Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber Baby
Edward M. Bury reviews Carol Ann Davis’s The Nail in the Tree: Essays on Art, Violence and Childhood
Siân Roberts reviews David Slavitt’s Vidui
T. C. Marshall reviews Fred Moten’s All That Beauty
Iris Lee reviews Veronica Golos’s Girl
Erin H. Davis reviews The Best Small Fictions 2019/
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Interventions: Frederick Luis Aldama— An Interview with Estella Gonzalez
Scenes: The Waywiser Press— An Interview with Philip Hoy
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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.
