ns 69 | Fall/Winter 2007

Featuring an interview with MH Abrams, reviews of new books by Walter Benn Michaels, John McGowan, and Paul Smith, plus a special section on online criticism.

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Anne Babson

Anne Babson has been nominated twice for a Pushcart and has won awards from Columbia, Atlanta Review, Grasslands Review among others. Her libretto for Su Lian Opera, Upbringing, is being produced by Meridian Arts Ensemble in 2006.

Poetry | Fiction | Interviews & Essays | Provocations | Surveying the Field

Poetry

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  Appears in: ns 65-66: The NYU GA Strike

MR BOOKS

Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.

Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.

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