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Prodding America’s Funnybone (on America’s Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbury by Walter Blair, Hamlin Hill)
IN Spring 1979
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Seeing Laughter Steadily and Whole (on Comedy High & Low: An Introduction to the Experience of Comedy by Maurice Charney; & The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary American Comic Novel by Ronald Wallace)
IN Summer 1980
IN Fall 1980
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Prize-Winning Novels and the Contemporary Fictional Voice (on After Freud by Mary Elsie Robertson; & Kingdoms by Barry Targan)
IN Winter 1981
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Bagging the Woodchuck, and Letting Go (on Saul Bellow: Drumlin Woodchuck by Mark Harris)
IN Spring 1981
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The Con Man as Covert Cultural Hero (on The Confidence Man in American Literature by Gary Lindberg)
IN Summer 1982
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The Magazine That Failed: The “Partisan Review” Crowd in Retrospect (on The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals by William Barrett)
IN Fall 1982
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on One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture by Robert Sattelmeyer and J. Donald Crowley
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Why Johnny Shouldn’t Read (on What Was Literature? Class And Mass Society by Leslie Fiedler)
IN Spring 1983
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on American Fictions, 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History and Critical Evaluation by Frederick R. Karl
IN Winter 1984
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on An American Procession: The Major American Writers fom 1830 to 30—The Crucial Century by Alfred Kazin
IN Fall 1984
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on The Rise of the New York Intellectuals: Partisan Review and Its Circle, 1934-1945 by Terry A. Cooney
IN Spring 1987
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The Great American Book Review (on American Incarnation: The Individual, The Nation, And The Continent by Myra Jehlen; American Ambitions: Selected Essays on Literary And Cultural Themes by Monroe K. Spears; Advertising The American Dream: Making Way For Modernity, 1920-1940 by Roland Marchand; Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing The American Dream by John E. Carter; & American Humor by Arthur Power Dudden)
IN Fall 1987
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Reading the Bible Well, in a Secular, Post-Holocaust Age (on Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible by David Rosenberg & The Literary Guide to the Bible by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode)
IN Spring 1988
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Literary History in an Indeterminate Age (on Columbia Literary History of the United States by Emory Elliott)
IN Summer 1988
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Biography As Comic Opera, As Melodrama, As Legal Fiction (on In Search of J. D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton)
IN Fall 1988
IN Winter 1988
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“After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?”: The Rise of Ethical Criticism (on The Company We Keep: An Ethics Of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth; The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988 by Wayne C. Booth; The Ethics of Criticism by Tobin Siebers; Find You the Virtue: Ethics, Image, and Desire in Literature by Irving Massey; & The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination by Robert Coles)
IN Summer 1989
IN Fall 1989
IN Winter 1989
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Faulkner Criticism’s Inexhaustible Voice (on William Faulkner: American Writer by Frederick R. Karl; Faulkner’s Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha by Daniel Hoffman; Fiction’s Inexhaustible Voice: Speech and Writing in Faulkner by Stephen M. Ross; & The Crossing of the Ways: William Faulkner, The South and the Modern World by Karl F. Zender)
IN Winter 1989
IN Fall 1990
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Criticism and Two Individual Talents (on The Portable Malcolm Cowley by Donald W. Faulkner; Mazes by Hugh Kenner; & Historical Fictions by Hugh Kenner)
IN Fall 1990
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IN Spring 1991
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The Literary Essay: Going Everywhere, Doing Everything (on A Sympathy of Souls by Albert Goldbarth; Maps to Anywhere by Bernard Cooper; & The Tyrannies of Virtue: The Cultural Criticism of John P. Sisk by Chris Anderson)
IN Spring 1991
IN Summer 1991
IN Winter 1991
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Civilisation and Its Remedies (on In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations by Jerry Mander & History and Spirit: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation by Joel Kovel)
IN Fall 1992
IN Winter 1992
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The Questions Literary Theoreticians Ask (on Is Literary History Possible? by David Perkins & Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature by Angus Fletcher)
IN Winter 1992
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The Politics of Mass Thought and Measured Forms (on Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking by David Bromwich & Conspiring with Forms: Life in Academic Texts by Terry Caesar)
IN Summer 1993
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What Americanists Talk About When They Talk About Culture (on The Making of Middlebrow Culture by Joan Shelley Rubin; The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America by Shirley Samuels; & Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States by Luther S. Luedtke)
IN Spring 1994
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(Re)joycing about (Re)reading (on Retelling/Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times by Karl Kroeber & Rereading by Matei Calinescu)
IN Summer 1994
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Mapping America from Odd Angles (on The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession by Virginia Scott Jenkins; Watch The Skies!: A Chronicle Of The Flying Saucer Myth by Curtis Peebles; & AfterCulture: Detroit and The Humiliation Of History by Jerry Herron)
IN Summer 1995
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Black Rage/White Guilt: Act II (on Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism and Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester by Derrick Bell)
IN Fall 1995
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IN Fall 1996
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Dispatches from the Culture Wars (on The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education by John K. Wilson; The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars by Todd Gitlin; & Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change by Stanley Fish)
IN Fall 1996
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Constructing the Icons of Popular Culture (on Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West In Popular Culture, edited by Richard Aquila; Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934 by David E. Ruth; 100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture by Timothy B. Spears; Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis by Charles Reagan Wilson; and God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America by Robert J. Higgs)
IN Winter 1996
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on Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution— Lessons for the Computer Age by Kirkpatrick Sale
IN Spring 1997
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Smart [Academic] Jews (on SmartJews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence by Sander L. Gilman and People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity, edited by Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Shelley Fisher Fishkin)
IN Spring 1997
IN Summer 1984
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Still Crazy (or Fuming) After All These Years (on Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey by David Horowitz; A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 by Paul Berman; For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman by Jonah Raskin; Making Peace with the 60s by David Burner; and Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy by Stephen Macedo)
IN Summer 1997
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“The Bluesteel, Rawhide, Patent-Leather Implications of Fairy Tales”: A Conversation with Albert Murray
IN Summer 1997
IN Fall 1997
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Essayists, Obsessions, and Hardcovers (on Art & Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination by Ilan Stavans; Walking Possession: Essays and Reviews, 1968-93 by Ian Hamilton; The Night Is Large: Collected Essays 1938-1995 by Martin Gardner; & No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1996 by George Steiner)
IN Fall 1997
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on America’s Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and Fulfillment in the 60s and 70s by Peter Clecak
IN Spring 1984
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When Privacy Becomes Everybody’s Business (on Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life by Janna Malamud Smith; Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach; and Portrait of My Body by Phillip Lopate)
IN Winter 1997
IN Spring 1984
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on Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John M. Ellis
IN Spring 1998
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Literary Culture and Its Watchdogs (on The Fateful Question of Culture by Geoffrey H. Hartman; A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Class Desire by Janice A. Radway; and Life Sentences: Literary Essays by Joseph Epstein)
IN Spring 1998
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Literary Biographers: Looking over Their Shoulders (on William Wordsworth: A Poetic Life by John L. Mahoney; Byron: The Flawed Angel by Phyllis Grosskurth; and W. B. Yeats: A Life, Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 by R. F. Foster)
IN Summer 1998
IN Fall 1998
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Moral Protest, or How to Get Riled Up about Almost Everything (on The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements by James M. Jasper; Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class, and Racism in the United States by Mark Nathan Cohen; and Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science by James Gilbert)
IN Fall 1998
IN Winter 1998
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About Writers: Hack, Serious, and Academic (on Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America’s Golden Age of Print by Ronald Weber; A Dangerous Profession: A Book about the Writing Life by Frederick Busch; and Writing in Disguise: Academic Life in Subordination by Terry Caesar)
IN Spring 1999
IN Summer 1999
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Why Literary Types (Often) Maintain Friendships That (Some) Public Intellectuals Can’t (on Ex-friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer by Norman Podhoretz; Cleanth Brooks And Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976 by Alphonse Vinh; & The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams by Christopher MacGowan)
IN Fall 1999
IN Winter 1999
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What We Talk About When We Talk About “Science” (on Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line by Thomas F. Gieryn; Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truths in the 21st Century by Michael Fortun and Herbert J. Bernstein; and The Truth Of Uncertainty: Beyond Ideology in Science and Literature by Edward L. Galligan)
IN Winter 1999
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Such Is the Stuff Our Popular Culture Is Made Of (on The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town by Andrew Ross; Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition by Richard Keller Simon; & Faded Mosaic: The Emergence of Post-cultural America by Christopher Clausen)
IN Fall 2000
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Citizens of Somewhere Else: Memoir and the Place of Place (on More Stories from My Father’s Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer; Cherry: A Memoir by Mary Karr; and False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory by André Aciman)
IN Spring 2001
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Contemporary American Fiction Through University Press Filters (on American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960 by Kathryn Hume; Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence by James R. Giles; and The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing, edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks)
IN Summer 2001
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Serious Reading in Serious Trouble (on Listening to the Page: Adventures in Reading and Writing by Alan Cheuse; The Crafty Reader by Robert E. Scholes; and Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H. J. Jackson)
IN Summer 2002
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The Personal Essay and the Complicated Eye/I (on The Private I: Privacy in the Public World, edited by Molly Peacock; Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch; Grave Goods: Essays of a Peculiar Nature by John P. O’Grady; and Many Circles: New and Selected Essays by Albert Goldbarth)
IN Fall 2002
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Contrasting Memories of Escape and Survival (on Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt; Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm by David Hamilton; Flying Sparks: Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas by Odette Larson; and A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel)
IN Winter 2002
IN Spring 2003
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