The Forum Reviews
issue 3.1 (fall-winter 2007)
"Spontaneous Sentences." Review of
No Wrong Notes, by Norman Weinstein.
"Mixed Messages in Six Modernist Moments." Review of
Six Modernist Moments in Poetry, by David Young
"Acts of Cruelty." Review of
The
Acme Novelty Library, by Chris Ware
"Hobgoblins
of the Timid." Review of Love-Lies-Bleeding, by
Don DeLillo.
"The Celebrant of
Texts." Review of A Temple of Texts by William Gass.
"Midwestern Magic."
Review of Skin, by Kellie Wells, and Tin God, by Terese
Svoboda
"Fellowship of Loss."
Review of The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space, by
Douglas Trevor
Review Essay: "'Exuberance
Departed': John Ashbery from Flow Chart to Where Shall I
Wander," by Mark Tursi
issue 2.2 (fall-winter 2006)
"The Deeper Structures of Literary History."
Review of Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a
Literary History, by Franco Moretti.
"The Lecture:
An Insouciance of Influence." Review of The Lecture, by
Lydie Salvayre.
"Postmodern Irish Fiction."
Review of Irish
Fiction and Postmodern Doubt: An Analysis of the Epistemological Crisis
in Modern Fiction, by Neil Murphy.
issue 2.1 (spring-summer 2005)
"American Mann." Review of
America's Magic Mountain, by Curtis White.
"Good at Games." Review of Love and
Other Games of Chance, by Lee Siegel.
"The Soul in Its Flight." Review of
The Garden in Which I Walk: Fictions, by Karen Brennan.
"To Form the Constellations." Review
of Where She Always Was, by Frannie Lindsey.
"Mapping the Midwest." Review of
Blue Mound to 161, by Garin Cycholl.
"Addicted to TV." Review of
Television, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint.
"Pomo Emergent." Review of
Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern, by
Marianne DeKoven.
"A Joycean
Knot." Review of James Joyce and the Problems of
Psychoanalysis, by Luke Thurston.
"The Radical Practice of Memory."
Review of Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American
Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture, by Alison Landsberg.
"Poems in the Language of Life."
Review of Reel, by George Szirtes.
"Living in Darkness." Review of
A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz.
"The Environment of Ecocriticism."
Review of Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern
England, by Sylvia Bowerbank.
issue 1.3 (fall 2004)
"Ah, Sorrentino." Review of The
Moon in Its Flight: Stories, by Gilbert Sorrentino.
"The Cult(ure) of Celebrity."
Review of Muse in the Machine: American Fiction and Mass Publicity,
by Mark Conroy.
"Writing (and Righting) the Self."
Review of Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire,
and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature, by Karen Coats.
"Traveling
Desire." Review of Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in
American Literature and Social Thought, by Michael Trask.
"Merry Sport."
Review of Sport, Politics, and
Literature in the English Renaissance, by Gregory M. Colón Semenza.
"Theatrical Narratives of Nineteenth-Century
British Culture." Review of Acting Naturally:
Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity, by Lynn M. Voskuil.
"The Theater of War." Review of
Staging the War: American Drama and WWII, by Albert Wertheim.
"Confronting
Illness." Review of The Transparent Lung, by Jayne
Fenton Keane.
issue 1.2 (summer 2004)
"Heretical Songs." Review of The Wavering
Knife, by Brian Evenson.
"How Abish Is It." Review of Double
Vision: A Memoir, by Walter Abish.
"Partial Consolations." Review of
The Singing, by C. K. Williams.
"Dotted Archipelagoes of Language."
Review of Some Values of Landscape and Weather, by Peter Gizzi.
"Crossing the Book-Brain Border."
Review
of Psychonarratology: Foundations for the Empirical Study of Literary
Response, by Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon.
"Our World's Death Songs." Review of
First World War Poems, edited by Andrew Motion.
"Listening to History." Review of
Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Tzvetan
Todorov.
"Literary Terrorists
of Transgressive Desire." Review of Crimes of Art + Terror,
by Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe.
"Brains Behind the
Brawn." Review of The Male Body at War: American
Masculinity During World War II, by Christina Jarvis.
"Modernity and the
Modern Woman." Review of The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris
Between the Wars, edited by Whitney Chadwick and Tirza True Latimer.
"Irish Times." Review of At War,
by Flann O'Brien.
"The
Epistemological Detective." Review of Victorian Detective
Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of
Poe, Dickins, and Doyle, by Lawrence Frank.
"Our Hang-Ups,
Ourselves." Review of Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of
Victorian Erotic Experience, by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman.
"Techno/Artistry."
Review of Women, Art, And Technology, edited by Judy Malloy.
issue 1.1
(spring 2004)
"Of War and Poetry: How Poetry Matters Today." Review of Cry Out:
Poets Protest the War, edited by Edward Morrow, and Poets Against
the War, edited by Sam Hamill and Sally Anderson.
"Fragments of Light." Review of enough, edited by Rick London
and Leslie Scalapino.
"Literature
of Exhaustion." Review of Vanishing Point, by David Markson.
"The Importance of
Difficulties." Review of The Difficulties of Modernism, by
Leonard Diepeveen.
"Canadian
Avant-Garde." Review of Ground
Works: Avant-Garde for Thee, edited by Christian Bok.
"Terror Alert." Review of
Terrorism, by the Presnyakov Brothers.
"'Emigrating backwards': Journeys into Ulster Dreamtime and the Ur-Time of
Brooklyn." Review of To Prove My Blood, by Philip Brady.
"Frost's Scientific Nature." Review of Going By Contraries: Robert Frost's
Conflict with Science, by Robert Bernard Hass.
"In Dreams."
Review of When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their
Tradition, by Jack Zipes.
