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1 online resource (2 volumes (lxxiii, 950 pages)) : illustrations

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Includes bibliographical reference (pages 933-934) and indexes.

Summary

Seeks to evaluate major examples of serious literature, both fiction and nonfiction, published during the previous calendar year. Each essay-review analyes and presnets the focus, intent, and relative success of the author, as well as the makeup and point of view of the work under discussion.

Contents

The Abyss of Human Illusion / S. Thomas Mack -- Adam Smith / Frank Day -- All the Whiskey in Heaven / Jeffry Jensen -- America and the Pill / Joseph Rosenblum -- American Taliban / Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. -- Angelology / Joanne McCarthy -- Anterooms / L.L. Lee -- Apparition and Late Fictions / Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman -- The Ask / Scott D. Yarbrough -- Atlantic / Cynthia A. Bily -- The Autobiography of an Execution / Robert Jacobs -- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 / R. Kent Rasmussen -- The Axe and the Oath / Thomas Rankin -- The Bars of Atlantis / Peter Brier -- The Battle of Marathon / Michael R. Meyers -- The Berlin-Baghdad Express / Byron Cannon -- Betsy Ross and the Making of America / Richard Adler -- Beyond Katrina / Laurence W. Mazzeno -- The Big Short / Frank Day -- The Black Minutes / Harold Branam -- Blooms of Darkness / Laurence W. Mazzeno -- Bob Dylan in America / Jeffry Jensen -- Bomber County / Charles L.P. Silet -- Bonhoeffer / Reinhold Schlieper -- The Book in the Renaissance / Joseph Rosenblum -- Bourgeois Dignity / Paul B. Trescott -- The Bridge / Eugene Larson -- The Changeling / R.C. Lutz -- Charlie Chan / Daniel P. Murphy.

The Charming Quirks of Others / Wendy Alison Lamb -- Churchill's Empire / William S. Brockington, Jr. -- Citizens of London / Laurence W. Mazzeno -- Citrus County / Scott D. Yarbrough -- Claiming Ground / Marjorie Podolsky -- Claude Lévi-Strauss / Carl L. Bankston III -- Conspirata / Thomas Willard -- The Cookbook Collector / Jay L. Halio -- Correspondence: Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan / Franz G. Blaha -- Country Driving / Paul B. Trescott -- Create Dangerously / Steven G. Kellman -- The Cross of Redemption / Sharon Carson -- Crossing Mandelbaum Gate / Sheldon Goldfarb -- The Crusades / Narasingha P. Sil -- Dead Line / Janet McCann -- The Death of the Adversary / Scott D. Yarbrough -- Decision Points / Ira Smolensky -- The Devil and Mr. Casement / Michael R. Meyers -- Diaghilev / Shawncey Webb -- Dickinson / John R. Holmes -- Dimanche, and Other Stories / Shawncey Webb -- The Disappearing Spoon / Richard Adler -- Dog Boy / Amy Sisson -- The Double Comfort Safari Club / Ann D. Garbett -- Dreams in a Time of War / Cynthia A. Bily -- Driving on the Rim / Harold Branam -- Eels / Carl W. Hoagstrom -- Elegy for April / David W. Madden.

The Elephant's Journey / Carl L. Bankston III -- Empire of the Summer Moon / James B. Lane -- Encounter / Jay L. Halio -- Extraordinary, Ordinary People / Timothy Lane -- The Fall of the House of Walworth / Milton Berman -- The Flight of the Intellectuals / Carl L. Bankston III -- Foreign Bodies / Jane Missner Barstow -- Four Fish / R. Baird Shuman -- Freedom / John K. Roth -- Freefall / Timothy Lane -- Fun with Problems / Charles E. May -- George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm / Gerald H. Strauss -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest / Jan Sjåvik -- Globish / Janet E. Gardner -- Gold Boy, Emerald Girl / C.L. Chua -- The Grand Design / Pegge Bochynski -- A Great Unrecorded History / Lisa Paddock -- Harvesting Fog / Janet McCann -- He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back / James B. Lane -- Hellhound on His Trail / Tony Rafalowski -- Here / Leon Lewis -- Hero / Michael Adams -- The Hilliker Curse / Ronald G. Walker -- A History of Clouds / Christopher Rager -- Hope in a Scattering Time / David Peck -- How to Read the Air / Joanne McCarthy -- Human Chain / Nicholas Birns -- Humorists / Betty Richardson -- If the Dead Rise Not / Roger Smith.

Ilustrado / Margaret Boe Birns -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Dolores L. Christie -- Imperfect Birds / Pegge Bochynski -- The Imperfectionists / Michael Adams -- The Infinities / David W. Madden -- Innocent / Kathryn E. Fort -- Insectopedia / Frank Day -- Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg / John Nizalowski -- A Journey / Eugene Larson -- Just Kids / Jeffry Jensen -- Justice Brennan / Thomas Tandy Lewis -- The King of Trees / R.C. Lutz -- Kraken / Amy Sisson -- The Lake Shore Limited / Theresa L. Stowell -- Last Call / Jacob M. Appel -- The Last Hero / Thomas R. Feller -- Last Looks, Last Books / Peter Brier -- Life / Jeffry Jensen -- The Life of Irène Némirovsky, 1903-1942 / Charles L.P. Silet -- Lighthead / Jeffry Jensen -- The Line / Steven G. Kellman -- Lives Like Loaded Guns / Holly L. Norton -- The Living Fire / Jeffry Jensen -- Long for This World / C.L. Chua -- Maggot / Jeffry Jensen -- The Man from Beijing / Laurence W. Mazzeno -- Master of Disguises / Mira N. Mataric -- Matterhorn / Roger Smith -- Memory / Faith Hickman Brynie -- Memory Wall / Dean Baldwin -- Microscripts / Thomas Willard.

The Mind's Eye / Diane Andrews Henningfeld -- Monsieur Pain / John Nizalowski -- Mourning Diary / James A. Winders -- Muriel Spark / Carl Rollyson -- Must You Go? / Dorothy Dodge Robbins -- The Name of the Nearest River / Scott D. Yarbrough -- Nemesis / David W. Madden -- The Nesting Season / Andrew J. Angyal -- Nine Lives / Robert Morace -- The Ninth / Karen Gould -- Noah's Compass / Bernadette Flynn Low -- Nomad / Timothy Lane -- Nothing to Envy / R. Baird Shuman -- Nox / Thomas Willard -- Once a Spy / Faith Hickman Brynie -- Operation Mincemeat / Thomas Tandy Lewis -- Our Kind of Traitor / Francine A. Dempsey -- Out of Athens / Tom Sienkewicz -- Outside Looking In / Sheldon Goldfarb -- Paradise Beneath Her Feet / Elizabeth D. Schafer -- Parisians / Shawncey Webb -- Parrot and Olivier in America / Carl L. Bankston III -- Paul Among the People / Timothy C. Miller -- Pearl Buck in China / Francine A. Dempsey -- Pen of Iron / Robert P. Ellis -- Point Omega / Cliff Prewencki -- The Possessed / Joseph Rosenblum -- The Pregnant Widow / Cliff Prewencki -- The Price of Altruism / Carl L. Bankston III -- The Professor, and Other Writings / Paul Stuewe.

Prose / Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. -- The Publisher / Milton Berman -- Ransom / Nicholas Birns -- A Reader on Reading / Richard Hauer Costa -- Reading Is My Window / Maureen Puffer-Rothenberg -- Reality Hunger / Maureen Kincaid Speller -- The Rembrandt Affair / Michael Adams -- The Reversal / Faith Hickman Brynie -- The Routes of Man / Roger Smith -- The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight / Barbara Kitt Seidman -- Saul Bellow: Letters / Robert P. Ellis -- The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham / Richard Hauer Costa -- Shadow Tag / Ann D. Garbett -- Silk Parachute / Robert Jacobs -- Slavery in Indian Country / William L. Urban -- Solar / Dorothy Dodge Robbins -- Something Is Out There / Paul Siegrist -- Spies of the Balkans / Harold Branam -- The Spot / Charles E. May -- Stone Lyre / Thomas Willard -- The Storm / Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman -- Sunset Park / Emily Alward -- Super Sad True Love Story / Margaret Boe Birns -- The Surrendered / Margaret Boe Birns -- The Tenth Parallel / Byron Cannon -- Thereby Hangs a Tail / John Wilson -- Thirty-six Arguments for the Existence of God / Christopher Rager -- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet / Harold Branam.

Tillie Olsen / Carl Rollyson -- To Mervas / Shawncey Webb -- Travels in Siberia / Robert J. Forman -- The Turquoise Ledge / Maureen Kincaid Speller -- Twilight of Impunity / Thomas Tandy Lewis -- The Twilight of the Bombs / Robert J. Paradowski -- Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty / Howard A. Kerner -- The Unnamed / Faith Hickman Brynie -- The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want / Sidney Gottlieb -- Valley of Death / Daniel P. Murphy -- A Visit from the Goon Squad -- Roy C. Flannagan -- War / Andrew Macdonald -- The Warmth of Other Suns / Emily Alward -- The Whale / Robert J. Paradowski -- What Becomes / Robert Morace -- What Technology Wants / Barbara Schiffman -- Where the God of Love Hangs Out / Paul Siegrist -- Why Translation Matters / Jean C. Fulton -- Wild Child / Charles E. May -- William Golding / Grove Koger -- Willie Mays / Richard Adler -- Winston's War / Lewis L. Gould -- Wounded Knee / Carl W. Hoagstrom -- Young Romantics / Carl Rollyson -- Zero History / Thomas R. Feller.

v. 1. A-L -- volume 2. L-Z.

Description based on

Print version record.

Subject

Books -- Reviews.

Literature, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism.

Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Bibliography.

Literature -- Stories, plots, etc.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.

Books.

Literature.

Literature, Modern.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Genre/Form

Bibliography.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Reviews.

Stories, plots, etc.

Electronic books.

Added Author

Wilson, John D.

Kellman, Steven G., 1947-

Other Form:

Print version: Magill's literary annual, 2011. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2011 9781587658150 (OCoLC)741127606

ISBN

9781587658181 (electronic bk.)

1587658186 (electronic bk.)