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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Will Watson

Will Watson spent ten years as a steel mill production laborer before opting for academe. He has published essays in College Literature and poetry in Blue Collar Review and Bottom Dog Press' Working Hard for the Money.

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

Poetry

• litany
  Appears in: ns 67: Intellectualism and the Public
• lexicon
  Appears in: ns 67: Intellectualism and the Public

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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