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.

Read this Issue

Clifford T. Manlove

Clifford T. Manlove teaches twentieth-century literature, postcolonial studies, and film theory at Penn State McKeesport. His research and publishing interests include the American South, reggae music and politics, science fiction and dystopia, and colonial/postcolonial narratives.

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

Surveying the Field

• Manufacturing War: on Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The War on Freedom: How and Why America Was Attacked September 11, 2001; Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié, Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden, trans. Lucy RoundsMouth; and Noam Chomsky, 9-11
  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.

Purchase Critics at Work.