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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Joan Mazza

Joan Mazza has worked as a Florida licensed mental health counselor, writing coach, sex therapist, and medical microbiologist and has appeared on radio and television as a dream specialist. She is the author of six books, including Dreaming Your Real Self (Perigee/Penguin 1998).

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

Poetry

• Check Out Girl
  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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