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2006

20-Sep-2006
Modernism Reevaluated

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).

19-Sep-2006
Recto and Sub-Verso

Eckhard Gerdes reviews Harold Jaffe's Terror-Dot-Gov: Docufictions.

08-Sep-2006
Notes from the Middleground: On Ben Marcus, Jonathan Franzen, and the Contemporary Fiction Combine

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.

20-Aug-2006
And Furthermore...

R M Berry Replies to Joseph Tabbi

20-Aug-2006
And Furthermore...

Joseph Tabbi Responds to R. M. Berry

20-Aug-2006
Blank Frank

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.

20-Aug-2006
Riga Under Western Eyes

If you're under the impression that Americans are wealthy, check out the capital city of Latvia.

18-Mar-2006
Global Politics and the Feminist Question

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.

17-Mar-2006
Free as in Free Culture: A Response to Francis Raven

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.

17-Mar-2006
Free Culture and Our Public Needs

Francis Raven reviews Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.

17-Mar-2006
Introduction: Waves

Lisa Joyce introduces this new gathering, titled "waves," of postfeminist essays.

17-Mar-2006
Of the Cliché and the Everyday

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.

17-Mar-2006
Postfeminism vs. the Third Wave

Alison Piepmeier examines the differences in postfeminism and third-wave feminism.

17-Mar-2006
The Importance of Being Narratological

Dave Ciccoricco responds to Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck.

17-Mar-2006
Then isn't it all just 'hacktivism'?

Karim A. Remtulla asks to what degree postfeminism is identical with hactivism?

17-Mar-2006
Virtual Realism

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.

17-Mar-2006
Towards a Loosening of Categories: Multi-Mimesis, Feminism, and Hypertext

Jess M.  Laccetti presents a theory of "multi-mimesis" as a way to redefine female subjectivity.

2005

18-Dec-2005
Empire and the Commons

Caren Irr reframes the question of private property through fantastic narratives of the commons.

18-Dec-2005
'Is it Possible Not to Love Žižek?' on Slavoj Žižek's Missed Encounter with Deleuze

Hanjo Berressem provides both fast-forward and slow-motion readings of Slavoj Žižek's Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences.

18-Dec-2005
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: Irreducible Innovation

William Smith Wilson injects the transcendentals of aesthetic illusions into Hardt and Negri's immanent materialism.