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July/August 1998
[Volume 19, Issue 5]
The Monstrous and the Marvelous: The Dual Nature of the Grotesque
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FOCUS: The Monstrous and the Marvelous
An Introduction
Rikki Ducornet
Inventing Unreality
Ann Lauterbach
Mytho-Immunity and the Fatherhood
Ben Marcus
Soap Opera
Harry Mathews
Freaks of Nature
Steven Moore
First Breath, Last Sigh
Rosamond Purcell
Art by Ramón Alejandro
FEATURE: Rebutting Rushdie
The Life and Death of Salman Rushdie
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
The Dilemmas of Writing in English in Postcolonial India
Pramod Mishra
FEATURE: Got My PoMo Workin'
Neo-Modernist Splatter-Gore
Freya Johnson reviews Bob Hardin's Distorture
Parody of the Parodic
Eric Miles Williamson reviews Janice Eidus's The Celibacy Club
BOOK REVIEWS:
Linda Wagner-Martin reviews Charles Olson's Collected Prose, edited by Donald Allen and Benjamin Friedlander
Tyrus Miller reviews Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Volume 1:1913-1926, edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings
Adrian Zupp reviews Robert Peter's Feather: A Child's Death and Life
Louis McKee reviews Susan Shapiro's Internal Medicine, Joseph Bathanti's This Metal and Martin Tucker's Attention Spans
Bob Blaisdell reviews Fred Bonnie's Food Fights: Tales from the Restaurant Trade
Al Maginnes reviews Wesley McNair's The Town of No & My Brother Running, and Dave Smith's Floating on Solitude
Daniela Gioseffi reviews Ben Morreale's The Loss of the Miraculous, and Debra Di Blasi's Drought & Say What You Like
Leigh Harrison reviews Barbara M. Fisher's Noble Numbers, Subtle Words
Charles Marowitz reviews David Mamet's True and False: Heresy & Common Sense For The Actor
Andy Robbins reviews two works by Marilyn Krysl: Soulskin, and Warscape with Lovers
Jamie Hutchinson reviews Sascha Feinstein's Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present
Chris Rutledge reviews Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel
From the Backlist
Gordon Thompson reviews Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance: 1920-1940, edited by James V. Hatch and Leo Hamalian
Frank Stewart reviews Nick Carbo's El Groupo McDonald's and Returning a Borrowed Tongue: An Anthology of Filipino and Filipino American Poetry, edited by Nick Carbo
DEPARTMENTS:
Picketing the Zeitgeist
"Collecting" Cultural Magazines' Self-Retrospectives by Richard Kostelanetz
Rants and Raves
Letters to the Editor
The Net
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