Summer 2016

Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 2016

From Ruins to Redemption: On Building Back Beyond Disaster

Anne Valente on Matt Bell’s Scrapper, Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus, and Jill Talbot’s The Way We Weren’t.

“History Has Its Eyes on You”: Contemporary Nonfiction and Its Engagement with the Past

Colin Rafferty on Janice Nimura’s Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, Sallie Bingham’s The Blue Box: Three Lives in LEtters, Sarah Wildman’s Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind, and Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk.

Reading Ashbery Reading Us

Jerry Harp on John Ashbery’s Breezeway