Focus: Digital Art Volume 44, Number 4 Winter 2023 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor Commerce with Montaigne by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Focus: Digital Art Introduction by Jessi Rae Morton Jessi Rae Morton reviews The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy by Amy Whitaker and Nora Burnett Abrams Hannah Grannemann reviews Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organizations and the Arts ed. by Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty Terry Smith reviews Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest by Laura Raico ..read more

Focus: Rethinking Classics Volume 44, Number 3 Fall 2023 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor Of All the People by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Focus: Rethinking Classics Introduction by Paul Allen Miller Future-Proofing Humanistic Study by Joy Connolly Unlearning Limits by Brooke Holmes Death to Classics by Shane Butler The Elasticity and Capaciousness of Classics by Barbara K. Gold Toward a Comparative Classics by Paul Allen Miller Images and the Discipline of the Classics by Patrice D. Rankine What Is a Future for Classics? by ..read more

Focus: Weak Theory Volume 44, Number 1 Spring 2023 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor Philosophical Gestures by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Focus: Weak Theory Introduction: Weak Theory—A Report on the Contemporary by Jeffrey Di Leo and Christian Moraru Weak but Tensile: Thirteen Propositions on the Occasion of Weak Theory by Henry Sussman Theory, Philosophy, and the Middle Space by Paul Allen Miller Rehabilitating Theory by Robert T. Tally Jr. Weak Jobs, Weak Theory: The Infrastructure of Criticism by Jeffrey J. Williams The S ..read more

Focus: The New Campus Novel Volume 43, Number 4 Winter 2022 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor The Cabinetmaker’s Apprentice by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Focus: The New Campus Novel Introduction: The New Campus Novel  by Matthew Roberson Millenial Fiction Meets the Campus Novel by Jeffrey J. Williams Rachel L. E. Klammer reviews Notes on a Thesis by Tiphaine Rivière Specters of Bloom by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Julie Schumacher reviews All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang Marta J. Lysik reviews The Friend: A ..read more

Focus: Soldier Writing Volume 43, Number 3 Fall 2022 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor The Wild Wild West by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Focus: Soldier Writing The Challengers by M.C. Armstrong HED: Afghanistan, Changing Room of Empires by Adrian Bonenberger Caleb S. Cage reviews Empire City: A Novel by Matt Gallagher MaxieJane Frazier reviews Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays by Lauren Hough Colin Cutler reviews Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Sadaawi, trans. Jonathan Wright Collin Halloran reviews Stories Are What Sa ..read more

In the spirit of the 2006 list of best first lines of novels, American Book Review Volume 29, No. 2, published in 2008, featured a list of 100 best last lines of novels.  Editor Charlie Harris contacted reviewers, critics, professors, writers, and readers to submit last lines for consideration and then vote to rank the “top 100” last lines. The accompanying responses published in this issue, which identify omissions or weaknesses in the list, make for interesting reading.  The reactions demonstrate that perhaps the most useful part of a list-making exercise is the provocation to c ..read more

Focus: Autofiction and Autotheory Volume 43, Number 2 Summer 2022 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor Dark Academe by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Focus: Autofiction & Autotheory Introduction: Autofiction, Autotheory, and Regimes of Visibility by Laura Cernat Autofiction across Borders: Anglo-Metamorphoses of a French Concept by Karen Ferreira-Meyers “Certain people were born with the internet inside them and suffered greatly from it”: Autofiction at the Intersection of Self, Sociality, and Mediation by Anna Poletti Refugee ..read more

Serious Fiction Volume 42, Number 4 May / June 2021 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. Stephen J. Burn’s Introduction to Focus: Serious Fiction Toon Staes reviews Karen Tei Yamashita’s Sansei and Sensibility Beatrice Pire reviews Mary K. Holland’s The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism Daniel Green reviews Mauro Javier Cárdena’s Aphasia Yonina Hoffman reviews Lee Siegel’s Typerotica Tom LeClair reviews Don DeLillo’s The Silence Jurrit Daalder reviews Charlie Kaufman’s Antkind Mary K. Holland reviews Adrienne Miller’s In the Land ..read more

Focus: Pandemic Poetry Volume 43, Number 1 Spring 2022 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor Why Is There Nothing — Rather Than Something? by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Focus: Pandemic Poetry Introduction: Poetry and Pandemic: Modern Marriage, Ancient Partners by Elizabeth Cohen Celia Bland reviews When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry ed. by Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, and Jennifer Elise Foerster Lisa Rhoades reviews Goldenrod by Maggie Smith Amy Guglielmo revie ..read more

Focus: Critical Pleasure Volume 42, Number 6 September / October 2021 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. Gina Masucci MacKenzie’s Introduction to Focus: The Drive Beyond Pleasure Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Daniel Mendelsohn’s Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate Jeffrey R. Di Leo — Critical Pleasure under Late Capitalism Daniel Rosenberg Nutters reviews Lode Lauwaert’s Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy and Alyce Mahon’s The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde Christa DiMarco reviews Mariella Guzzoni’s Vincent’s ..read more