• Susan M. Schultz, "Voicing the Neonew" [a review of "Postmodern Poetries: Jerome J. McGann Guest-Edits an Anthology of Language Poets From North America and the United Kingdom," Verse 7.1 (Spring, 1990): 6-73.]

• Henry Hart, "Graven Images" A review of Poetry as Epitaph, by Karen Mills-Courts (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1990)

• John Anderson, review of The Many Lives of Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and His Media, ed. Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio.

• Jim English, review of Postmodernism, Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, by Fredric Jameson.

• Greg Dawes, review of Literature and politics in the Central American revolutions, by John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman.

• M.E. Sokolik, review of Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing, and Representation in North American Indian Texts, ed. David Murray.

• Bill Hsu, review of SPEW, the first queer punk fanzine convention. May 25 1991. Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.

• Gerry O'Sullivan, review of Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics, Art, by Michael Zimmerman.

• Dan Miller, review of Musical Elaborations, by Edward W. Said.

• Charles Stivale, review of Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism, by Joseph A. Boone and Michael Cadden, eds., and of Out of Bounds: Male Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism, by Laura Claridge and Elizabeth Langland, eds.

• Roger Berger. Review of Adam, Ian, and Helen Tiffin, eds. Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-modernism and Post-colonialism. Calgary: U Calgary P, 1990. Reviewed by Roger Berger.

• Chris Connery. Review of Chow, Rey. Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading Between West and East. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1991.

• Clifford L. Staples. Review of hooks, bell. Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston: South End Press, 1990.

• Douglas A. Davis. Review of Cixous, Helene. "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays. Ed. Deborah Jenson. Trans. Sarah Cornell, Deborah Jenson, Ann Liddle, Susan Sellers. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991.

• Rose Norman. Review of Code, Lorraine. What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991.

• Susan Ross. Review of Flax, Jane. Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West. Berkeley: California UP, 1990.

• John Batali. Review of Nye, Andrea. Words of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic. London: Routledge, 1990; Gross, Alan G. The Rhetoric of Science. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990.

• Robert C. Holub. Review of Koelb, Clayton, ed. Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra. Albany: SUNY P, 1990.

• Sharon Bassett. Review of Desmond, William. Art and the Absolute: A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics. Albany: SUNY P, 1986; Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987; Philosophy and Its Others: Ways of Being and Mind. SUNY P, 1990.

• Renate Holub. Review of Norris, Christopher. Spinoza and the Origin of Modern Critical Theory. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1991.

• Neil Larsen. Review of Jameson, Fredric. Late Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the Dialectic. London: Verso, 1990.

• Joseph Dumit. Review of Penley, Constance, and Andrew Ross, eds. Technoculture. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1991.

• Lisa M. Heilbronn. Review of Kinder, Marsha. Playing With Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games; From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Berkeley: California UP, 1991.

• James Morrison. Review of Horton, Andrew, ed. Comedy/Cinema/Theory. Berkeley: California UP, 1991.

• Susan Schultz. Review of Ashbery, John. Flow Chart. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991; Bronk, William. Living Instead. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991.

• Terry Collins, "The Vietnam War, Reascendant Conservatism, White Victims," review of The Vietnam War and American Culture, ed. John Carlos and Rick Berg, and Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature, ed. Philip K. Jason.

• Michael W. Foley, review of Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions, by Pauline Marie Rosenau.

• Ursula K. Heise, "Becoming Postmodern?" review of Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time, by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth.

• Edward M. Jennings, "The Text is Dead; Long Live The Techst," review of Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Literary Theory and Technology, by George P. Landow.

• Matthew Mancini, review of Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism, by Giles Gunn.

• Meryl Altman and Keith Nightenhelser, review of Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, by Thomas Laqueur.

• Mark Poster, review of Michel Foucault, by Didier Eribon.

• Linda Ray Pratt, "Speaking in Tongues: Dead Elvis and the Greil Quest," review of Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession, by Greil Marcus.

• Rei Terada, "The Pressures of Merely Sublimating," review of American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre, by Rob Wilson.

• Bill Millard, "Bargaincounterculturalcapitalism: Gear and Writhing at the New Music Seminar." A review of the New Music Seminar and New York Nights, June 15-21, 1992, New York City.

• Russell Potter, "The Black (W)hole of Bataille: A Genealogy of Postmodernism?" A review of The Accursed Share vols. 2 & 3, by Georges Bataille, and Heterology and the Postmodern, by Julian Pefanis.

• Alan Aycock, "Post-Literacy." A review of Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing With Computers, Myron Tuman, ed.

• Susan Schultz, "Postmodern Promos." A review of A Poetics, by Charles Bernstein, and Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, by Marjorie Perloff.

• Kevin Kiernan, "La Condition McGann." A review of The Textual Condition, by Jerome McGann.

• Rebecca Stephens, "Postmodern Woolf." A review of Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself, by Pamela L. Caughie.

• Stuart Moulthrop, "Deuteronomy Comix." A review of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

• Jon Thompson, "Consuming Megalopolis." A review of Celeste Olalquiaga's Megalopolis: Contemporary Cultural Sensibilities.

• Philip E. Agre, "Sustainability and Critique." A review of Will Wright's Wild Knowledge: Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment.

• Susan J. Ritchie, "Constructing an Archipelago: Writing the Caribbean." A review of Antonio Benitez-Rojo's The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective.

• James Morrison, "Hitchcock: The Industry." A review of Robert E. Kapsis's Hitchock: The Making of a Reputation.

• Josephine Lee, "Cookbooks for Theory and Performance." A review of Case, Sue-Ellen and Janelle Reinelt, eds. The Performance of Power: Theatrical Discourse and Politics, and Reinelt, Janelle G. and Joseph R. Roach, eds. Critical Theory and Performance.

• Glen Scott Allen, "Baptismal Eulogies: Reconstructing Deconstruction from the Ashes." A review of Jacques Derrida's Cinders, tr. Ned Lukacher, and Jacques Derrida's The Other Heading: Reflections on Today's Europe, tr. Pascale-Anne Brault & Michael B. Naas.

• Tim Watson, "Comrade Gramsci's Progeny." Review of Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, vol. 1, David Harris, From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure, and Renate Holub, Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism.

• J. Russell Perkin, "Theorizing the Culture Wars." Review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Loose Canons, Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars, and William V. Spanos, The End of Education.

• Leslie Regan Shade, "Women and Television." Review of Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV, and Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann, eds., Private Screenings.

• Debra Silverman, "Playing With Clothes." Review of Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests.

• Simon Carter, "Risk and the New Modernity." Review of Ulrich Bech, Risk Society.

• Eric Rabkin, "CyFy PoMo?" Review of David Ketterer, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Larry McCaffery, Storming the Reality Studio.

• Lahoucine Ouzgane, "Women and Islam." Review of Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam.

• Mark Fenster, "Authorizing Memory, Remembering Authority." A Review of Michael Schudson's Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past, and Barbie Zelizer's Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory.

• Rita Barnard, "`Imagining the Unimaginable': J.M. Coetzee, History, and Autobiography." A Review of David Attwell's J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing, and J.M. Coetzee, Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews, ed. David Attwell.

• Heesok Chang, "Postmodern Communities: the Politics of Oscillation." A Review of Gianni Vattimo's The Transparent Society and Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community.

• J.L. Lemke, "Practice, Politique, Postmodernism." A review of Pierre Bourdieu and Lois J.D. Wacquant's An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology.

• John McGowan, "Postmodernist Purity." A review of Craig Owens's Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture. Ed. Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and Jane Weinstock.

• Andrew Herman, "Fear of Music." A review of Andrew Goodwin's Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Televison and Popular Culture.

• Marc Perlman, "Idioculture: De-Massifying the Popular Music Audience." A review of Susan D. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil and the Music in Daily Life Project's My Music. Foreword by George Lipsitz.

• Timothy D. Taylor, "The Sound of the Avant-Garde." A review of Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead, eds., The Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde.

• Gayle Wald, "Anna Deveare Smith's Voices at Twilight." Review of The Mark Taper Forum Production of "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992," a work-in-progress that is part of the "On the Road: A Search for American Character" series conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. Directed by Emily Mann. Set design by Robert Brill. Costume design by Candice Donnelly. Lighting by Allen Lee Hughes. Original music by Lucia Hwong.

• Lynda Goldstein, "Queer Bodies of Knowledge: Constructing Lesbian and Gay Studies." Review of Abelove, Henry, Michele Anna Barale, and David M. Halperin, eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1993, and Gever, Martha, John Greyson, and Pratibha Parmar, eds. Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video. New York: Routledge, 1993.

• Linda Ray Pratt, "A Postmodern Foundation for Political Practice." Review of McGowan, John. Postmodernism and Its Critics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

• Lance Olsen, "Virtual Light." Review of Gibson, William. Virtual Light. New York: Bantam, 1993.

• Susan Schultz, "Exaggerated History." Review of Susan Howe, The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993, and Susan Howe, The Nonconformist's Memorial. New York: New Directions, 1993.

• Kevin Harley, "Grown-Ups and Fanboys." Review of Sabin, Roger. Adult Comics: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.

• M. Daphne Kutzer, "Malice: The New American Hero." Review of Malice, Directed by Harold Becker. Screenplay by Aaron Sorking and Scott Frank. Castlerock, 1993.

• Jim Hicks, "Forward into the Past." Review of Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993; and Ivan Illich, In the Vineyard of the Text. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1993.

• Vitaly Chernetsky, "Late Soviet Culture: A Parallax For Postmodernism." Review of Lahusen, Thomas, and Gene Kuperman, eds., Late Soviet Culture. Durham: Duke UP, 1993.

• Brent Wood, "From Technology to Machinism." Review of Verena Andermatt Conley, ed., Rethinking Technologies. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1993.

• Gregory Ulmer, "Unthinkable Writing." Review of Perforations 5 (1994): "Bodies, Dreams, Technologies." Public Domain, Inc., POB 8899, Atlanta, GA. 31106-0899. INFO@PD.ORG

• Ira Lightman, "Coalitions and Coteries." Review of Tim Edwards, Erotics and Politics. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1994.

• Woodrow B. Hood, "Laurie Anderson and the Politics of Performance." Review of Laurie Anderson, Stories from the Nerve Bible: A Retrospective 1972-1992. Performed at the Lied Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas, March 29, 1994.

• Russell A. Potter, "Black Modernisms/Black Postmodernisms." Review of: Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Wesleyan UP/ UP of New England; and Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness. Harvard UP.

• Jeffrey Nealon, "Theory That Matters" Review of Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex". New York & London: Routledge, 1993.

• Jonathan Markovitz, "Blurring the Lines: Art on the Border" Review of La Frontera/The Border: Art About the Mexico/United States Border Experience. Organized by the Centro Cultural de la Raza and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

• Thomas Benson, "Permanence and Change in the Global Village" Review of Garry, Patrick M. Scrambling for Protection: The New Media and the First Amendment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

• Kevin J.H. Dettmar, "Postmodern Jeremiad: Kruger on Popular Culture" Review of Barbara Kruger. Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.

• Christian L. Pyle, "The Superhero Meets the Culture Critic" Review of Reynolds, Richard. Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology. Studies in Popular Culture. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1994.

• Brent Wood, "Bring on the Noise! William S. Burroughs and Music in the Expanded Field." Review of William S. Burroughs, Dead City Radio. Island Records, 1990; ---, Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales. Island Records, 1993; Ministry with William S. Burroughs, Just One Fix. Sire Records, 1992; Revolting Cocks, Beers, Steers and Queers. Waxtrax, 1991; and ---, Linger Fickin Good. Sire Records, 1993.

• Alan G. Gross, "A Disorder of Being: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Holocaust." Review of Lawrence L. Langer, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven: Yale UP, 1991; James E. Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993; and Yitzhak Zuckerman, A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Barbara Harshav, ed. and trans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

• Karen Morin, "The Gender of Geography." Review of Gillian Rose, Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. 205 pages. $44.95. cloth, $17.95 paper.

• Steven Helmling, "The Desire Called Jameson." Review of Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xviii + 214 pages. $22.95.

• Matthew Causey, "Mapping the Dematerialized: Writing Postmodern Performance Theory." Review of Nick Kaye, Postmodernism and Performance. London: Macmillan, 1994.

• Jon Thompson, "A Turn Toward The Past." Review of Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.

• Tatjana Pavlovic, "Demystifying Nationalism: Dubravka Ugresic and the Situation of the Writer in (Ex-)Yugoslavia." Review of Dubravka Ugresic, Fording the Stream of Consciousness. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1993; ---, In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1993.

• Mark Poster, "Techno-Communities." Review of Steven Jones, ed., Cybersociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. New York: Sage, 1995.

• Wendy Anson, "Intermedia '95" Review of the 10th Annual International Conference and Exposition on Multimedia and CD-ROM. March, 1995. Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA.

• Rebecca Chung, "Rethinking Agency." Review of Patricia Mann, Micropolitics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

• Myles Breen, "Presenting Paradise." Review of Elizabeth Buck, Paradise Remade: The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai'i. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1993.

• Tom Benson, "New Political Journalism." Review of Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes: The Way to the White House. New York: Random House, 1992.

• Ivan Strenski, "The Ethics of Ethnocentrism." Review of Tzvetan Todorov, On Human Diversity. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993.

• Crystal Bartolovich, "Have Theory; Will Travel: Constructions of "Cultural Geography." Review of Peter Jackson and Jan Penrose, eds., Constructions of Race, Place, and Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

• Tamise Van Pelt, "Queering Freud in Freiburg." Review of The Twelfth Annual Conference in Literature and Psychology. June 21-24, 1995, Freiburg, Germany.

• Kristine Butler, "Bordering on Fiction: Chantal Akerman's D'Est." Review of Chantal Akerman's D'Est, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. June 18-August 27.

• Steve Martinot, "Spectors of Sartre: Nancy's Romance with Ontological Freedom." Review of Jean-Luc Nancy, The Experience of Freedom. Stanford: Stanford Unversity Press, 1993.

• Rob Wilkie, "Postmodernism as Usual: 'Theory' in the American Academy Today." Review of Mas'ud Zavarzadeh and Donal Morton, Theory as Resistance. New York: Guilford Press, 1994.

• Nickola Pazderic, "Hard Bodies." Review of Susan Jeffords, Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Regan Era. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1994, and Peter Lehman. Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. x, 237 pp.

• Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "The Cult of Print." Review of Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994.

• S. Brent Plate, "Lacan Looks at Hill and Hears His Name Spoken: An Interpretive Review of Gary Hill through Lacan's 'I's' and Gazes." Review of Gary Hill, Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo. May 11 - August 20. Organized by Chris Bruce, Senior Curator, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle.

• A.H.S. Boy, "Biding Spectacular Time." Review of Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle. trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone Books, 1994.

• Minette Estevez, "Theorizing Public/Pedagogic Space: Richard Serra's Critique of Private Property." Review of Richard Serra, Writings/Interviews. Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1994.

• Daniel Barbiero, "The First Amendment in an Age of Electronic Reproduction." Review of Ronald K.L. Collins and David Skover, The Death of Discourse. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.

• Jeff Schwartz, "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll?" Review of Simon Reynolds and Joy Press, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

• Brian Evenson, "Rewiring the Culture." Review of Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String. New York: Knopf, 1995

• James Berger, "Ends and Means: Theorizing Apocalypse in the 1990's." Review of Lee Quinby, Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994), Stephen D. O'Leary, Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric, (New York: Oxford UP, 1994), Richard Dellamora, Apocalyptic Overtures: Sexual Politics and the Sense of an Ending (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1994).

• Kenneth Sherwood, "A Millennial Poetics." Review of Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, eds., Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry (Volume One: From Finde Sie'cle to Negritude). Berkeley U of California P, 1995.

• Joe Amato, "Personal Effects, Public Effects, Special Effects: Institutionalizing American Poetry." Review of Jed Rasula, The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects, 1940-1990. National Council of Teachers of English.

• Anjali Arondekar, "The Problem of Strategy: How to Read Race, Gender, and Class in the Colonial Context." Review of Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. New York: Routledge, 1995.

• Kelly Cresap, "Bisexuals, Cyborgs, and Chaos." Review of Marjorie Garber, Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

• Mark Shadle, "Schama and the New Histories of Landscape." Review of Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1995.

• Carina Yervasi, "Confessions of a Net Surfer: Net Chick and Grrrls on the Web." Review of Carla Sinclair, Net Chick: A Smart-Girl Guide to the Wired World. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996.

• Samuel Collins, "'Head Out On the Highway': Anthropological Encounters with the Supermodern." Review of Marc Auge, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. New York: Verso, 1995.

• Jon Ippolito, "Whose Opera Is This, Anyway?" Review of Tod Machover and MIT Media Lab's interactive Brain Opera, performed at Lincoln Center, NYC, July 23-August 3, 1996.

• Thomas Swiss, "Music and Noise: Marketing Hypertexts." Review of Eastgate Systems, Inc.

• Theresa Smalec, "(Re)Presenting the Renaissance on a Post-Modern Stage." Review of Susan Bennett, Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.

• Crystal Downing, "Multiplicity: Una Vista de Nada." Review of Multiplicity, directed by Harold Ramis, Columbia Pictures, 1996.

• Brent Wood, "Resistance in Rhyme." Review of Russell Potter, Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism. Albany: SUNY, 1995.

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