Vol. 4, No.1, Spring 1999 (#13)

Clayton Eshleman, Luis González Palma, Sven Birkerts, John Milton, Lewis Carroll, and more...purchase now

INTERVIEWS

Clayton Eshleman | interviewed by Eric Lorberer
Luis González Palma | interviewed by Elizabeth Culbert
Sven Birkerts | interviewed by Chris Fischbach

FEATURES

Jazz Pianists: biographies of Bud Powell & Bill Evans | reviewed by Jon Rodine
Feminist Films: new books by B. Ruby Rich & Michelle Citron | reviewed by Rebecca Miller
Lord Berniers: back in print: First Childhood; A Distant Prospect; Collected Tales & Fantasies | reviewed by Rebecca Harrison
Raymond Federman: A to XXXX: a recyclopedic narrative | reviewed by Eric Lorberer
Stephen Dixon: New Work | essay by Jerome Klinkowitz
John Milton | essay by John S. Beckmann
Twisted Spoon: press profile | by David Auerbach
Lewis Caroll: optical pleasures | essay by Rikki Ducornet

PLUS:

Adversaria: Quotations courtesy of Carole Maso
Widely Unavailable: David Ohle | reviewed by Rod Smith
The Writer Reads: Arthur Sze on Josephine Miles
The New Life: a comic | by Gary Sullivan

REVIEWS

NON-FICTION

The Victor Weeps, Afghanistan | Fazal Sheikh |  by Josie Rawson
Surrealist Women | ed. Penelope Rosemont |  by Kelly Everding
Zapata's Disciple | Martin Espada |  by Josie Rawson
Zig Zag | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |  by Joshua Heatley
The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness | Wole Soyinka |  by Jason C. Myers
Mirrors | Marcel Cohen |  by Raphael Rubinstein
Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song | eds. Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, & Dan Campion |  by Stephen Gohler
True | Rae Armantrout |  by David Matlin
Diaries 1899-1942 | Robert Musil |  by Jason Kuykendall
The Edges of the Civilized World | Alison Hawthorne Deming |  by Allison Slavick
Lost Crusade | Peter Scott |  by Chase Madar

FICTION

Breakfast on Pluto | Patrick McCabe |  by David Wiley
Allan Stein | Matthew Stadler |  by Evelyn Moro
Quincas Borba | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis |  by Mary Sarko
Mosquito | Gayl Jones |  by Elizabeth Millard
The River of Lost Voices | Mark Brazaitis |  by Leola Abraham
Doomsday Belly | Susan Smith Nash |  by Carolyn Kuebler
Women Drinking Benedictine | Sharon Dilworth |  by Susan Swartwout
Small Craft Warnings | Kate Braverman |  by Brian Evenson
The Blue Deer & Other Dreamtales | David Rains Dahl |  by Christopher Tinney
The Station Hill Blanchot Reader  |  by Tom McGeveran
Country of Memory | K. C. Frederick |  by Peter Ritter
Ambrose Bierce & the Queen of Spades | Oakley Hall |  by Brian Schwartz
Nature Studies | John Henry Ryskamp |  by David Wiley
Parable of the Talents | Octavia E. Butler |  by Rudi Dornemann
Louse | David Grand |  by David Remy
The Best of 2.13.61 | ed. Henry Rollins |  by Paul D. Dickinson
It's Only Rock and Roll | eds. Janice Eidus & John Kastan |  by Nikki Dillon
The Climate of the Country | Marnie Mueller |  by Carolyn Kuebler
An Arrow's Flight | Mark Merlis |  by Tom Roach
Unruly Angels | Ronald Nevans |  by Thomas Fagan

POETRY

Then, and Now | Theodore Enslin |  by Hank Lazer
Handwriting | Michael Ondaatje |  by Jeffrey Shotts
The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille |  by Kelly Everding
Criteria | Sianne Ngai |  by Summi Kaipa
Vita Nova | Louise Glück |  by S. P. Healey
Cabato Sentora | Ray Gonzalez |  by Fred Schmalz
Allegory of the Supermarket | Stephanie Brown |  by Juliet Patterson
Home and Away | Rachel Wetzsteon |  by Sarah Fox
Babylon in a Jar | Andrew Hudgins |  by Tony Barnstone
Our Master Plan | Dara Wier |  by Brian Beatty

PLAYS

Blue Heart | Caryl Churchill |  by Anne Ursu

GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Jew of New York | Ben Katchor |  by William D. Waltz

AUDIO

If Evolution is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve  | Jello Biafra |  by Thomas Rain Crowe

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