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Volume 44, Number 4 (Winter 2023) Special Issue: Digital Art Contents From the Editor Commerce with Montaigne Jeffrey R. Di Leo Focus: Digital Art Introduction Jessi Rae Morton Amy Whitaker and Nora Burnett Abrams, The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy Jessi Rae Morton Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty, Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organizations and the Arts Hannah Grannemann Laura Raicovitch, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in the Age of Protest Terry Smith Kim Dhillon, Counter-Texts: Language in Contemporary Art Chris Colvin Leonhard Emmerling, The Art of Diremption: On the Powerlessness of Art, translated by Parnal Chirmuley Gavin Sourgen Ottessa Moshfegh and Issy Wood, My New Novel/The Down Payment Rene Marzuk No, Alexa: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Art David Riddle Watson Interventions An Interview with Ben Okri Frederick Luis Aldama Lost and Found In Search of “The Star-Spangled Banner” Anthony Madrid Fiction M. G. Stephens, Kid Coole and King Ezra John Schertzer Max Blecher, The Illuminated Burrow , translated by Gabi Reigh Allan Graubard Ann McGlinn, Ride On, See You Edward M. Bury Miguel Ángel Asturias, Mr. President , translated by David Unger Vivian Arimany Tom LeClair, Passing Again Neil D. Isaacs Jack Driscoll, Twenty Stories Bob Duxbury E-Feature The Literary Assistant as Point Guard E. Ethelbert Miller Cartographies Point of View and Cognitive Mapping: The Case of Mrs. Dalloway Robert T. Tally Jr. Translation The Translation Stone Brian O’Keeffe Poetry DeWitt Henry, Foundlings: Found Poems from Prose Michael Joyce Jeffrey Franklin, Where We Lay Down Adam Vines Christopher Hirschmann Brandt, The Place Where Grief Begins Patricia Laurence Susana H. Case, The Damage Done Cory Massaro Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry , edited by Donald G. Evans and Robin Metz Mark Fishbein Grace Shulman, Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2022 Hilary Sideris Mark Weiss, A Suite of Dances Christopher Winks The Laureates An Appalachian Voice Speaks for Ohio: A Conversation with Kari Gunter-Seymour Renee H. Shea Criticism The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction , edited by Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, and Alistair Rolls David Riddle Watson Bruce Robbins, Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction Robert T. Tally Jr. Harold Jaffe, BRUT: Writings on Art & Artists Eckhard Gerdes Cultural Studies Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class Josh Polinard Printers and Poets Particularly the Press Charles Alexander Scenes Soft Skull Press: An Interview with Mensah Demary Poetics to Come Panentheism: Ontology of the Future, or Poetics? Daniel T. O’Hara The Departed Cormac McCarthy’s Abendrot David Cowart

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Founded in 1977, the American Book Review is a nonprofit, internationally distributed publication that appears four times a year. ABR specializes in reviews of frequently neglected published works of fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism from small, regional, university, ethnic, avant-garde, and women's presses. ABR as a literary journal aims to project the sense of engagement that writers themselves feel about what is being published. It is edited and produced by writers for writers and the general public.

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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906484

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• Steven G. Kellman
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906485
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• Jay Neugeboren
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906486
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906487
• "It Takes Only One"
• Carl Rollyson
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906488
• Efforts at Speech
• Lee Robinson
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906489
• "My Plate Is Full": Rejection, a Memoir
• Steve Tomasula
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906490
• A Literate Journey
• John Tytell
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906491
• My Soul, the Mule
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906492
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906493
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• Anthony Madrid
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906494
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906495
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906496
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906499
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906500
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906501
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906502
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• E. Ethelbert Miller
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906503
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• pp. 100-104
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906504
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• pp. 105-109
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906505
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906506
• Within the Inscribed: Selected Prose & Conversations by Michael Heller (review)
• Bonnie Walker
• pp. 115-119
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906507
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• pp. 120-123
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906508
• 2021: January–June by Morgan Miller III and James Call (review)
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• pp. 123-127
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906509
• Capricorn, Venus Descendant: 50 Poems of Pandemos, Karkinos, & Eros by Michael Joyce, and: Light in Its Common Place by Michael Joyce (review)
• Daniel T. O'Hara
• pp. 128-131
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906510
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• pp. 131-135
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906511
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• pp. 135-140
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906512
• A Complex Sentence by Marjorie Welish (review)
• pp. 140-143
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906513
• Thirty-Six/Two Lives: A Poetic Dialogue by Norman Finkelstein and Tirzah Goldenberg (review)
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• pp. 144-149
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906514
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• pp. 150-152
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906515
• Reflections in the Time of Trumpius Maximus: A Journal in Poems, AD 2016–2021 by Mark Fishbein, and: No Mask, No Talk: Corona Poems, 2020–2021 by Eve Packer (review)
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906516
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906517
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906518
• Turtle Point Press: An Interview with Ruth Greenstein
• pp. 169-171
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906519
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• pp. 172-175
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906623
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• Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete, 09/1975- , dropped
• Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management, 09/1975 -
• Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines, 03/1980-
• Gale OneFile: US History, 09/1975-
• InfoTrac Custom, 3/1980-
• ArticleFirst, vol.21, no.1, 1993-vol.39, no.4, 2011
• Book Review Digest (Online), vol.17, 1989-vol.36, no.4, 2008
• Electronic Collections Online, vol.23, no.1, 1995-vol.39, no.4, 2011
• Periodical Abstracts, v.17, n.1, 1989-v.39, n.2, 2011
• Personal Alert (E-mail)
• Health & Medical Collection
• Health Research Premium Collection
• Hospital Premium Collection
• Medical Database
• Periodicals Index Online
• Professional ProQuest Central, 03/01/1989-
• ProQuest 5000, 03/01/1989-
• ProQuest Central, 03/01/1989-
• Research Library, 03/01/1989-

Abstracting & Indexing Sources

• Children's Book Review Index   (Active)  (Print)
• Chicano Index   (Ceased)  (Print)

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