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I Thought I Hated Inaugural Poems (But It Turns Out I Don't). Schneiderman, Jason Critical essay Mar 1, 2012 6169
Mrs. Simmons, of Australia, would like you to know: an exchange in verse. Doyle, Brian; Iyer, Pico Jan 1, 2012 959
The Gravity of Falling: having hurtled through the American century, we are distracted and confused. But can we find our way again? Hoagland, Edward Essay Jan 1, 2012 5739
A Jew in the Northwest: exile, ethnicity, and the search for the perfect futon. Deresiewicz, William Essay Jan 1, 2012 7839
Like two pairs of glasses: Eva Stachniak on writing between cultures. Spyra, Ania Interview Jan 1, 2012 2811
Burmese Poetry: Tectonic Shifts. Byrne, James (British educator) Critical essay Jan 1, 2012 1654
Rose, 1985. Moe Zaw Poem Jan 1, 2012 369
Cars and Culture: Rat Rods. DeWitt, Jack Critical essay Nov 1, 2011 4247
Catastrophist. Wrenn, Marion Critical essay Nov 1, 2011 8350
From "The Hall of the Singing Caryatids". Pelevin, Victor Short story Sep 22, 2011 5003
Advert. Welish, Marjorie Poem Sep 22, 2011 479
A Saga to Remember: Flann O'Brien's Unfinished Novel. Nejezchleb, Amy Critical essay Sep 22, 2011 5645
Meme, myself, and I. Freeman, Allen Sep 22, 2011 1132
When Kerouac Met Kesey: the two counterculture heroes, one representing the Beat '50s and one the psychedelic '60s, had a lot less in common than you might expect. Lord, Sterling Critical essay Sep 22, 2011 2606
What Is American in Modern American Poetry? A Primer with Poems. Hirshfield, Jane Critical essay Sep 1, 2011 6201
Lines on Craigslist. Brouwer, Joel Poem Sep 1, 2011 179
Diagnosis. Sadoff, Ira Poem Sep 1, 2011 142
Darkness at the heart of recent Italian literature: under the surface tension of the beauty and bawdiness and quaint eccentricity of the Italian stereotype lies the struggle for the soul of this strange nation. Shugaar, Antony Critical essay Jul 1, 2011 3332
Gianni Celati and "Plain" Storytelling in Contemporary Italy: what are the "fictions to believe in"? Gianni Celati and the Emilian writers in Italy attempt to recuperate wisdom in a world of information through the extraordinary in the everyday. Against a culture of blindness, Celati's "Badalucco" sonnets Iook through the neon glare of spectacle into the darkness of the contemporary world. Richards, Jamie Critical essay Jul 1, 2011 2691
Pitiless Flaws Restored: Satiric Truth in Gilbert Sorrentino's Flawless Play Restored: The Masque of Fungo. Miller, Tyrus Critical essay Jun 22, 2011 4345
Donald Hall: an interview by Ernest Hilbert. Hilbert, Ernest Interview May 1, 2011 5446
D. A. Powell: an interview by James Cihlar. Cihlar, James Interview May 1, 2011 5177
What Are Intellectuals for? A Modest Proposal in Dialogue Form. Kingwell, Mark Viewpoint essay Mar 22, 2011 5101
Invisible Blackness in Edith Wharton's Old New York. Hoeller, Hildegard Critical essay Mar 22, 2011 13124
Duplicities of Power: Amiri Baraka's and Lorenzo Thomas's Responses to September 11. Gery, John Roy Octavius Critical essay Mar 22, 2011 9862
No Name in the South: James Baldwin and the Monuments of Identity. Birmingham, Kevin Critical essay Mar 22, 2011 10712
What Child Is This?: Closely Reading Collectivity and Queer Childrearing in Lackawanna Blues and Noah's Arc. Stephens, Vincent Critical essay Mar 22, 2011 13178
Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes; or, the "Colored Historian's" Resistance to the Technologies of Power in Postwar America. Manuel Cuenca, Carmen Critical essay Mar 22, 2011 18516
Frank Bidart's "Inauguration Day". Axelrod, Steven Gould Critical essay Mar 1, 2011 4071
Celebrities. Teleky, Richard Poem Dec 22, 2010 232
Reality Bites. Kaipa, Summi Poem Nov 1, 2010 496
Fantasia on a Medieval Latin Poem. Williamson, Alan Bacher Poem Nov 1, 2010 408
Has the Age of Ideas Passed? Porter, Anna Essay Sep 22, 2010 2074
Rock of Ages: Forty years after their deaths, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin now seem part of the mainstream culture they rebelled against. Smith, Wendy (American editor) Critical essay Sep 22, 2010 2633
Trial and Eros: when "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ran afoul of Britain's 1959 obscenity law, the resulting case had a cast worthy of P. G. Wodehouse. Yagoda, Ben Critical essay Sep 22, 2010 5933
The Mortal Coil Is Sprung: A Reading of Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland. McCullough, Laura Critical essay Sep 1, 2010 5352
Cars and Culture: The Cars of American Graffiti. DeWitt, Jack Critical essay Sep 1, 2010 4657
The Side Project. Muldoon, Paul Poem Jun 22, 2010 1968
In the Brotherhood of Guns. Rompf, David Essay Jun 1, 2010 5930
The Witness and the Wonder: Flannery O'Connor and Rachel Carson as Cultural Critics. Hagood, Charlotte Amanda Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 5866
Historians and Nature: Environmental historian Donald Worster explains why historians should stop separating culture from nature. Worster, Donald Lecture Mar 22, 2010 464
Vanity of vanities ... all is vanity. Editorial Mar 22, 2010 200
The Glittering Skull: Celebrity Culture as World Religion. Marche, Stephen Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 3387
Apocalypse New? Punter, Jennie Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 2480
Permanent Fatal Errors: The Information Age and the War Criminal Next Door. Hodgen, Christie Essay Mar 22, 2010 11221
"Tell Me If It Is Too Far For You": On Sympathy. Wojahn, David Critical essay Mar 1, 2010 9324
In the Men's Room at the Cafe Provence. Reeve, F. D. Poem Mar 1, 2010 316
Ecstatic Emigre III. Keelan, Claudia Essay Jan 1, 2010 3915
Shylock, My Students, and Me: What I've learned from 30 years of teaching The Merchant of Venice. Cohen, Paula Marantz Essay Jan 1, 2010 3265
Southern Baptist zen. Butler, Jack Jan 1, 2010 10644
The New Religion. Baker, Aaron Poem Dec 22, 2009 192
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Marshall Circle: Racial Representation from Blackface to Black Naturalism. Daigle, Jonathan Critical essay Dec 22, 2009 17749
At the Speed Of Darkness. Arroyo, Rane Poem Dec 22, 2009 1051
Warhol/Electric Chair/'63. Balakian, Peter Poem Dec 1, 2009 169
Brooklyn the Unknowable. Lopate, Phillip Essay Dec 1, 2009 5205
Coming to the End. Rutsala, Vern Poem Nov 1, 2009 127
Roots: on language and heritage: a conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye. Long, Kate Interview Nov 1, 2009 2592
The Musee du Quai Branly: The Last of Paris's Grand Projets? Beaton, Belinda Critical essay Sep 22, 2009 3700
My father's hats. Hammond, Jeffrey Essay Sep 22, 2009 6626
From "Self-Portrait Abroad". Toussaint, Jean-Philippe Novel Sep 22, 2009 4393
Cars and Culture: The Hirohata Merc--So Cool. DeWitt, Jack Essay Sep 1, 2009 2806
Autoethnographic cultural criticism as method: toward sociological imaginations of race, memory and identity. Song, Sandra J. Report Jun 22, 2009 10291
"I Could Always Feel Race Trouble ... Never More Than Two Feet Off": Chester Himes's Melancholic Perception. Simpson, Tyrone, II Critical essay Jun 22, 2009 9637
"Singing Love Songs to Mr. Death": Racial Terror and the State of Erection in D'Angelo's "(Untitled) How Does It Feel?". Ellis, Aime J. Critical essay Jun 22, 2009 11472
The Trouble with Publicness: Toward a Theory of Black Quiet. Quashie, Kevin Everod Essay Jun 22, 2009 12130
A Voice Beyond the South: Resituating the Locus of Cultural Representation in the Later Writings of Anna Julia Cooper. Moody-Turner, Shirley Critical essay Mar 22, 2009 7652
To a Waterfowl. Hall, Donald (American poet) Poem Jan 1, 2009 378
Signs & Portents. Skinner, Jeffrey Poem Jan 1, 2009 248
Mo Jo Like a Mo Fo. Dawson, Erica Poem Dec 1, 2008 214
Rock Me, Mama. Dawson, Erica Poem Dec 1, 2008 250
Prophetic Outlook. Hilbert, Ernest Sonnet Jul 1, 2008 220
Temne twins (ta-bari) should share everything: do you mean everything? Lamp, Frederick John Critical essay Mar 22, 2008 11418
Body double as body politic: psychosocial myth and cultural binary in Fatal Attraction. Kales, Emily Fox Critical essay Jan 1, 2008 3817
History Matters: A Minority Report. Sadoff, Ira Essay Nov 1, 2007 8822
Voices of time. Galeano, Eduardo Reprint Jul 1, 2007 364
V.S. Naipaul's Half a life, Magic seeds and globalisation (1)/v.s. Naipaul's Half a life, en Magic seeds en globalisering. Balfour, Robert Critical essay Apr 1, 2007 8027
Hope at Hamilton College. Oct 1, 2006 1719
What time is it in Russia? Brent, Jonathan Oct 1, 2006 3220
Versions of the truth. Bowman, James Oct 1, 2006 2979
Spy art: infiltrating the real. Wright, Stephen Sep 1, 2006 3452
Craven at the BBC. Mar 1, 2006 828
Larry Summers, sacrificial beast. Brief article Mar 1, 2006 305
Revolution for the rich: James's Princess Casamassima. Falcoff, Mark Critical essay Mar 1, 2006 3565
Bang or whimper? Dalrymple, Theodore Column Mar 1, 2006 2054
Susan Sontag: discord & desire. Ozick, Cynthia Critical essay Mar 1, 2006 1933
Notes & comments: February 2006. Feb 1, 2006 1661
Condescending respect. Bowman, James Feb 1, 2006 3225
Know when to fold 'em. Dalrymple, Theodore Critical essay Feb 1, 2006 2118
Who's hooking up on-line? Gudelunas, David Excerpt Jan 1, 2006 3586
Roger Shattuck, 1923-2005. Obituary Jan 1, 2006 552
Limits to democracy. Scruton, Roger Jan 1, 2006 5726
Independence Day, 1835: the John A. Murrell conspiracy and the lynching of the Vicksburg gamblers in literature. Smith, Thomas Ruys Dec 22, 2005 11249
Shrieks, Drones and destruction: how Fluxus altered the face of pop music [without anyone noticing]. Dyment, Dave Critical essay Dec 22, 2005 2225
File under anarchy: a brief history of punk rock's 30-year relationship with Toronto's Art Press. Miller, Earl Dec 22, 2005 3715
Dan Graham. Jacob, Luis Interview Dec 22, 2005 2752
Martha Rosler. Carson, Andrea Dec 22, 2005 559
Building a culture of lawfulness in Mexico. Parker, Michael T. Oct 1, 2005 297
BGL: Jasmin Bilodeau, Sebastien Giguere, Nicolas Laverdiere. Thorne, Kika Interview Sep 22, 2005 2472
"All that glitters": reappraising "Golden Land". Ramsey, D. Matthew Critical essay Sep 22, 2005 7234
"With judgment reserved": reading both predictably and unpredictably in William Faulkner's Light in August and The Wild Palms. Fenrick, Michael Critical essay Sep 22, 2005 6573
"Aghast and uplifted": William Faulkner and the absence of history. Newhouse, Wade Critical essay Sep 22, 2005 11342
America's traditional values: the conscience of a nation. Gray, Charles E. Sep 1, 2005 2117
In pursuit of feminist postfeminism and the blessings of Buttercup. Hubel, Teresa Critical essay Jun 1, 2005 1796
"With usura hath no man a house of good stone" (Pound, Canto 45): an interview with Leon Surette. Tryphonopoulos, Demetres P. Interview Jun 1, 2005 7808
Literary London: post-, ex-, trans-, neo-? Luckhurst, Roger Essay Jun 1, 2005 5429
The Age of Imitation. Digby, Joan Essay Mar 22, 2005 4236
Rand redux. Gillespie, Nick Brief Article Mar 1, 2005 487
Boomer or bust: reflections of a generational refugee. Taylor, Jeff A. Column Mar 1, 2005 654
Ayn Rand at 100: loved, hated, and always controversial, the best-selling author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged is more relevant than ever. Young, Cathy Mar 1, 2005 2917
Think about the South: Michael O'Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860. Watson, Harry L. Critical essay Dec 22, 2004 3069
Masters, slaves, and the "Mind of the South". Donaldson, Susan V. Critical essay Dec 22, 2004 4506
"Memory believes before knowing remembers": the insistence of the past and Lacan's unconscious desire in Light in August. Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe Critical essay Sep 22, 2004 7267
Indiana Jones & the joystick of doom: understanding the past via computer games. Champion, Erik Essay Jul 1, 2004 6433
From colonialism to multiculturalism? Totem poles, tourism and national identity in Vancouver's Stanley Park. Mawani, Renisa Jan 1, 2004 9548
Female masculinity in Weimar cinema. Sutton, Katie Critical essay Jan 1, 2004 7347
Expanding aesthetic boundaries in Australian garden design. Harvey, Georgia Essay Jan 1, 2004 7361
Schizophrenics & cyborgs: interrogating 'posthuman(ist)' subjectivity. Woods, Angela Critical essay Jan 1, 2004 7192
Missing the point? Misprints, mistranslations and transformations. Frank, Helen T. Critical essay Jul 1, 2003 6221
An independent forum for critical black voices: Washington, D.C.-based poet, and journalist Esther Iverem turns Web maven as founder of the two-year-old site SeeingBlack.com. (spotlight). Fulwood, Sam, III Jul 1, 2003 1170
Book history unbound: transactions of the written word made public. Howsam, Leslie Apr 1, 2003 6625
Translating theory: toward a (re)construction of Chinese critical discourse. Ning, Wang Critical essay Apr 1, 2003 6607
Splice of life: manipulations of the "real" in South African English literary culture. de Kock, Leon Critical Essay Mar 1, 2003 8858
Left out? Marxism, the new left and cultural studies. Milner, Andrew Sep 22, 2002 5605
Interrogating Diaspora: Wang Gungwu's Pulse. Holden, Philip Jul 1, 2002 8156
The language of the self: autobiographies and testimonies. Critical Essay Jan 1, 2002 385

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