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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Mark Jacob

Mark Jacob is foreign/national news editor at the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author of three non-fiction books: The Game That Was: The George Brace Baseball Photo Collection (1995), Wrigley Field: A Celebration of the Friendly Confines (2002), and the forthcoming Chicago Under Glass: Early Photographs From the Chicago Daily News.

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

Fiction

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  Appears in: ns 68: Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature & the "Being at Work" Poetry Challenge

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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