April 1, 1991
Versions of Revision: Conflict and Community in the American Canon
The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon by Arnold Krupat. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. 259 pages. $30.00; $9.95, paper. New Ground: Western American Narrative […]
January 1, 1991
Cathars, Kids, and Catharsis: Three Poets
History and Geography by Judith Barrington. Portland, Ore: Eighth Mountain Press, 1989. 109 pages. $7.95. The Niobe Poems by Kate Daniels. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. 60 pages. $8.95. […]
January 1, 1991
Twilight of the Idols
Ginsberg: A Biography by Barry Miles. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. 588 pages. $24.95. The Life and Death of Andy Warhol by Victor Bockris. New York: Bantam Books, 1989. […]
January 1, 1991
Creation and the Courtesy of Reading
Real Presences by George Steiner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. 236 pages. $19.95. Debates about deconstruction have been raging in the academy for nearly two decades. Though academic literary […]
January 1, 1991
Recent Poetry
Boy on the Step. By Stanley Plumly. New York: Ecco Press, 1989. 58 pp. $17.95. House of Light. By Mary Oliver. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990. 80 pp. $14.95. Dangerous Life. […]
October 1, 1990
Continuity and Growth
Please note: Due to an error in the print volume, some text on page 177 appears to be missing. JSTOR has reviewed several copies of this issue and found them […]
July 1, 1990
Attempts upon Delight: Six Poetry Books
A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. 126 pages. $15.95. Groom Falconer by Norman Dubie. New York: Norton, 1989. 61 pages. $17.95. […]
July 1, 1990
On the Cutting Edge
The Kenyon Review. 1939-1970: A Critical History by Marian Janssen. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. 351 pages. $45.00. In its heyday during the 1940s and the early […]
July 1, 1990
Harold Bloom’s Critical Sublime
The Poetics of Influence: New and Selected Criticism by Harold Bloom, edited and with an introduction by John Hollander. New Haven: Henry R. Schwab, 1988. 450 pages. $39.95, cloth, $19.95, […]
January 1, 1990
A Postmodern Jeremiah
Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings ed. Mark Poster. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1988. 230 pages. $32.50, cloth; $10.95, paper. Jean Baudrillard has been a presence on the French scene […]
January 1, 1990
Reinventing the Comic Sublime
Before It Vanishes: A Packet for Professor Pagels by Robert Pack. Boston: David R. Godine, 1989. 85 pages. $15.95. This is Robert Pack’s tenth book of poems and, intent […]
January 1, 1990
When Failure Is Not the True Test
The Creole Mephistopheles by Laurence Lieberman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988. 135 pages. $19.95. The Southern Reaches by Sherod Santos. Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. 69 pages. $18.50. […]