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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Tom Wayman

Tom Wayman's newest book of poems is High Speed Through Shoaling Water (2007). He teaches at the University of Calgary, Alberta, and served as the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University in winter 2007. His first collection of short fiction, Boundary Country, is scheduled to appear in 2007.

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

Poetry

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

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