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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Susan McMaster

Susan McMaster's ninth book and fourth CD, Until the Light Bends, was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award and Lampman Poetry Prize. She edits such volumes as Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action. She works at the National Gallery.

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

Poetry

• At Midnight Talks Fail
  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.

Purchase Critics at Work.