Volume X, Number 4

Spring 2009

Fiction & Poetry

Marta Figlerowicz, “Justice is Sharpening / A Second Sword”

On Anne Carson, An Oresteia

Carolyn Gaebler, Of Rabbits and Hedgehogs and Counterrevolutionaries

On Yiyun Li, The Vagrants

Emily Chertoff, American Losers

On Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

David Rice, Sens-Plastique

On Malcolm de Chazal, Sens-Plastique

Caroline Bleeke, Cricket Music

On Bernardo Atxaga, The Accordionist’s Son

David Rice, Pulp Fever

On Albert Sanchez Piñol, Pandora in the Congo

Justin Keenan, Playing Deadly

On Denis Johnson, Nobody Move: A Novel

David Wallace, Theses on Jack Spicer

On  My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

Rob Mrkonich, “We Leave Traces of Us Everywhere”

On Robert Boswell, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards: Stories

Non-Fiction

William Eck, A Dirty Thing

On Alexander Waugh, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War

Antonio Baclig, Beowulf the Scientist

On Harold Varmus, The Art and Politics of Science


Features

Julian Arni, The Death of Someone We Loved

On Post-Soviet Literature