May/June 1998 [Volume 19, Issue 4] A View From India Excerpted from this issue: Of Books and Borders Stephen Alter All of our excerpts are in Adobe Acrobat format. If you don't have Adobe Reader on your computer, you can click this button and download it for free.   Table of Contents FOCUS: A View From India An Introduction: Straight From India Ronald Sukenick Shiva Meets Godzilla. . . Robert Siegle Of Books and Borders Stephen Alter Small Urdu and Less Hindi: Rebutting Rushdie Harish Trivedi The Reach of Hindi Fiction Raji Narasimhan Literatures of India: The Local and the Global Meenakshi Mukherjee Two Contemporary Bengali Novelists Narayan Mukherji FEATURE: Insider Art Prison Art in America Fielding Dawson reviews Phyllis Kornfeld's Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America FEATURE: The Literary Essay The Closeness of Kin and the Desire to Wander Kate Madden reviews Kat Meads's Born Southern and Restless Everywhere and Nowhere Bob Blaisdell reviews Steven Harvey's Lost In Translation BACK TO TOP OF PAGE   BOOK REVIEWS: James Hatch reviews Meter in English: A Critical Engagement, edited by David Baker, and Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, edited by Mark Jarman and David Mason Sal Salasin reviews Denise Duhamel's Kinky Leora  Lev reviews Dennis Cooper's Guide John Jacob reviews Philip Lamantia's Bed of Sphinxes: New and Selected Poems, 1943-1993 Rikki Ducornet reviews Doris G. Bargen's A Woman's Weapon: Spirit Possession in the Tale of Genji  and Mursaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. Miriam Levine reviews Edward Nobles's Through One Tear and Cathleen Calbert's Lessons in Space Victor Bradley reviews Greil Marcus's Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes Barry Wallenstein reviews Edgar M. Branch's Studs Lonigan's Neighborhood and The Making of James T. Farrell Jason Weiss reviews Richard Foreman's No-Body: a novel in parts Ronald Bogue reviews New Novel Review 4.1 (Fall 1996), The Bi-annual Fiction Collection: New Works by Established and Emerging Writers, edited by Ben Stoltzfus Frank Allen reviews Dick Allen's Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected Saul N. Brody reviews Leslie Ross's Medieval Art: A Topical Dictionary Judy Michaels reviews Jane Miller's Memory at These Speeds: New & Selected Poems Joe Napora reviews Maggie Jaffe's How the West Was One, art by Deborah Small Kenneth Warren reviews Lawrence Ferlinghetti's A Far Rockaway of the Heart Jonathan Curelop reviews Lucia Nevai's Normal   DEPARTMENTS: Picketing the Zeitgeist Richard Kostelanetz BACK TO TOP OF PAGE