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Volume 7, Number 1: Fall 2005

Fiction and Poetry

MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES by Gabriel García Márquez
Reviewed by Catherine Moore

MISSING MOM by Joyce Carol Oates
Reviewed by Catherine Tung

ON BEAUTY by Zadie Smith
Reviewed by Amelia Atlas

SECOND SPACE by Czeslaw Milosz
Reviewed by Jay Deshpande

SLOW MAN by J.M. Coetzee
Reviewed by Joshua Billings

THE MARCH by E.L. Doctorow
Reviewed by Anthony Domestico

THE THIRD BROTHER by Nick McDonell
Reviewed by Jon C. Liu

HAROLD PINTER: A RETROSPECTIVE
A feature by Laura Kolbe

SAUL BELLOW: AN APPRECIATION
A feature by Anthony Domestico

Non-Fiction

13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE NOVEL by Jane Smiley
Reviewed by Emer Vaughn

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion
Reviewed by Kristen Tracey

T.S. ELIOT: THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN POET by James E. Miller, Jr.
REVISITING THE WASTE LAND by Lawrence Rainey
Reviewed by Casey N. Cep

THE RISE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: JEFFERSON TO LINCOLN by Sean Wilentz
Reviewed by Jenny Jin

THE ARGUMENTATIVE INDIAN by Amartya Sen
Reviewed by Nancy Yang

STILL LOOKING: ESSAYS ON AMERICAN ART by John Updike
Reviewed by Marta Figlerowicz

MELVILLE: HIS WORLD AND WORK by Andrew Delbanco
Reviewed by Anthony Domestico

PRAYER: A HISTORY by Philip and Carol Zaleski
Reviewed by Amy Wong

PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY—ESSAYS ON MORALITY IN POLITICS by Michael Sandel
Reviewed by Samuel Jacobs

A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by James Shapiro
HISTORY PLAY: THE LIVES AND AFTERLIFE OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Reviewed by Giulio Pertile

TÊTE-À-TÊTE by Hazel Rowley
Reviewed by Kara Riopelle

SUBVERTING WRITING AFTER FOUCAULT
A feature by Justine Nagurney

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