2006
Walton Muyumba reviews two books: Michael Soto's The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance and American Literature (2004) and Manuel Martinez's Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera (2003).
Eckhard Gerdes reviews Harold Jaffe's Terror-Dot-Gov: Docufictions.
Davis Schneiderman revisits the non-debate between Jonathan Franzen and Ben Marcus, touches on recent flare-ups in the American Book Review and the NOW WHAT blog, and reflects on the economy of book jacket blurbs.
This review of Ralph Berry's novel Frank and the subsequent exchange between the authors, appeared in the March/April 2006 and July/August 2006 issues of The American Book Review.
If you're under the impression that Americans are wealthy, check out the capital city of Latvia.
Ara Wilson writes a riposte on the gathering of "waves" essays; she points out that global feminist politics provides a necessary perspective on debates about the current state of feminism.
Benjamin J. Robertson responds to Francis Raven's review of Lessig's Free Culture. Writing against Raven, he outlines the ways in which Lessig's work is crucial for our current cultural moment.
Francis Raven reviews Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.
Lisa Joyce introduces this new gathering, titled "waves," of postfeminist essays.
Christopher Leise reviews Kenneth Bernard's The Man in the Stretcher and Richard Kalich's Charlie P, a work that is as much interested in the idea of the novel as it is a novel of ideas.
Alison Piepmeier examines the differences in postfeminism and third-wave feminism.
Dave Ciccoricco responds to Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck.
Karim A. Remtulla asks to what degree postfeminism is identical with hactivism?
Jess M. Laccetti presents a theory of "multi-mimesis" as a way to redefine female subjectivity.
Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck review Marie Laure-Ryan's Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. They review the essential characteristics of hypertext to suggest more nuanced ways to understand realism in relation to virtual reality.
2005
Caren Irr reframes the question of private property through fantastic narratives of the commons.
Hanjo Berressem provides both fast-forward and slow-motion readings of Slavoj Žižek's Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences.
William Smith Wilson injects the transcendentals of aesthetic illusions into Hardt and Negri's immanent materialism.