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Vol. 4, Number 2 Summer 2001

Fall 2001 - Contents


Letter from the Editor by Lily Sheehan
The Geneology of Empire
reviewed by Bikram Chatterji
review of The Glass Palace
book by Amitav Ghosh
Telling Tales
reviewed by Jessica Lee Thomas
review of Political Fictions
book by Joan Didion
Interrogating the Classics
reviewed by Daniel Barrett
review of Stranger Shores
book by J.M. Coetzee
The Animal in Man
reviewed by Lucas Hanft
review of The Dying Animal
book by Philip Roth
Doomed to Walk
reviewed by Susannah Rutherglen
review of Hamlet in Purgatory
book by Stephen Greenblatt
All in the Family
reviewed by Katie French
review of The Corrections
book by Jonathan Franzen
The Maze of Murdoch
reviewed by Carey Seal
review of Iris Murdoch: A Life
book by Peter Conradi
A Contemporary Quixote
reviewed by Aaron Goode
review of The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time
book by George McGovern
Talking with the Tax Man about Poetry
reviewed by Allie Stielau
review of Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
book by Billy Collins
Exquisite Solitude
reviewed by Noam Schimmel
review of Silence in October
book by ens Christian Grondahl
A Fleeting Romance
reviewed by Anne Blackfield
review of Swift as Desire
book by Laura Ezquivel
Everything and Then Some
reviewed by Joshua Gruenspecht
review of The Procedure
book by Harry Mulisch



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