Issue #17.1

Contents:

• James Matthews / “From Poisoned Wells”
• Gerald Vizenor / “Bound Feet”
• Michel Serres / “China Loam”
• Phyllis Barber / “Tangles”
• Thomas Glynn / “Apartment”
• Georges Perec / “Rorschash”
• Lynn Luria-Sukenick / “The Man with the Blues Guitar: A Progression on Poetry and Music”
• Derek Pell / “The Topsy-Turvy “World of Edward Hopper”
• Gary Thompson and Anna Nowak / “An Interview with Tadeusz Konwicki”
• Melissa Lentricchia / “The Golden Robe”
• Kenneth Bernard / “Question and Answer”
• Geoffrey Green / “A Flood of Memories”
• Mark Leyner / “my cousin, my gastroenterologist”
• Mridula Garg / “Without Love in Bhopal”
• Rodolfo Torres / “In the Ruins of Tundavala” “Execution”
• Michael Krekorian / “Avedis”
• Bessie Head / “The Coming of the Christ-Child”
• Richard Kostelanetz / “Stories”
• Craig Padawer / “Cause and Effect”
• Gene Wolfe / “Parkroads — A Review”
• Jonathan Franzen / “Facts”
• Alain Arias-Mission / “The ‘New Novel’ and TV Culture: Reflections on Walter Abish’s How German Is It?“
• Thomas S. Donahue / “How to Read Black English Critically: A Guide”

Reviews:

• Bloods / reviewed by John A. Williams
• Dana P. Polan / on Rosalind E. Krauss
• Formalism and Marxism and Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction / reviewed by Gerald J. Butler

Art:

• Liz Sisco / “Border Ordure”
• David Avalos / “The Border: An International Fiction”
• Cover: Undocumented Mexican Woman, Solana Beach, California, 1984. Photograph by Elizabeth Sisco