From Summer 1979 Explore This Issue Defending the Humanities (on Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society by Gerald Graff) By Michael Fischer From the Summer 1979 Issue ← At the Crossroads of Time: Types of Simultaneity in Literature and Film → Charles Olsen and His Forces (on A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson by George F. Butterick; Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael by Paul Christensen; Olson’s Push: Origin, Black Mountain and Recent American Poetry by Sherman Paul; &Charles Olson: The Scholar’s Art by Robert von Hallberg)