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• Issue 1

  Winter 2005
• Flash Fiction by Miriam N. Kotzin

• Issue 2

  Spring 2006
• So Much Blood in Him: Power and Corruption in Three Plays of Shakespeare by Paul D. Green
• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? by Steven Rosen
• Corrupt CD/DVD Recovery by Vic Ferri
• Time Out: The Corruption of Free Thought
• Doug Wartman

• Issue 3

  Summer 2006
• Free or Just Loose: The Scandal of My Scansion by Kathrine Varnes
• With Liberty and Justice: A Few Remarks About Translation by David Slavitt
• Different Drums, Different Continents? by Chris Nickson
• Wars of Truth: Milton's Areopagitica in the Twenty-first Century by Paul D. Green
• The Sexless Land: Social and Phonological Change by Maria de la luz Matus-Mendoza
• How the Mutuality Paradigm Fosters Freedom by Gordon Fellman
• The Fight for Freedom in Iraq by Captain K. Knox Nunnally
• Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose by Father Shane Tharp
• The Dea[r]th of Solitude by Miriam N. Kotzin
• Super Ad Blocker: Freedom from Annoying Internet Ads and Pop-ups by Vic Ferri
• Free Your PC from Spyware by Vic Ferri

• Issue 4

  Fall 2006
• Immortal Longings:  Suicide of Honor in Seneca, Shakespeare and Mishima by Paul D. Green
• Banking on Mercy by Ann Sitarz
• Stories Well Told by Chris Nickson
• Clipboard Security Test - Internet Explorer by Vic Ferri

• Issue 5

  Winter 2006
• Finding (Good) Stuff on the Internet by Alison Lewis

• Issue 6

  Spring 2007
• "Electronic Music: Unsung Revolutions of the 20th Century" by Joel Chadabe
• Broken in Beijing by Kay Sexton
• Gone Phishing - Keeping the Thieves Out of Your Inbox by Bill Turner

• Issue 7

  Summer 2007
• The Look by Jessica Taboada
• Rembrandt and the Jews, Revisited by Larry Silver

• Issue 8

  Fall 2007
• Translating Kierkegaard by M.G. Piety
• Internet Journalism 101: Exploring the Web's Possibilities by Rachel Sawyer
• Advanced Internet Research by Rachel Sawyer
• The Real Abstract: Louise Bourgeois’s Sculpture by Donald Kuspit
• Defining Jewish Painters in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Larry Silver Part 1

• Issue 9

  Winter 2007
• Diaspora and Identity: The Modern Jewish Painter by Larry Silver Part 2 of 2

Issue 10

Spring 2008
• The Green Thought - Police State Rising: The Function of Surveillance in Orwell’s 1984 by Paul D. Green
• The Eyes of Power by M. G. Piety
• What is his name, the child whose death you spoke about, Kiraithe? by Ayo Bole
• Rigging is Just Rigging (Or, A Nation Held Hostage) by Muthoni Garland
• History in His Hands, Creative Non-Fiction by Chris Ellis
• Victor at Valley Forge, Creative Non-Fiction by Jeffrey E. Lee
• Moth, Creative Non-Fiction by Jo Nean
• Poetry As An Enactment of Looking: The Unhealable In Rilke by Donald Kuspit
• The Dutchness of Dutch Art by Larry Silver

• Issue 11

  Summer 2008
• Wagon Mound by Darlin' Neal
• Departure: the Great Dream by William Jay Smith
• Nano-Fiction by Bill Turner
• Solar Panels and Polar Bears by Bill Turner
• Frosting by Rhina P. Espaillat
• Up from Under: A Note on Structural Mimesis by Carter Ratcliff

• Issue 13

  Winter 2009
• Climbing Up the Rough Side of the Mountain : Excerpts from a book in progress by Norman and Velma Hill with David Evanier

• Issue 16

  Fall 2009
• Aesthetic Transcendence And Transformation by Donald Kuspit

• Issue 19

  Summer 2010
• Paradoxes And Problems Of The Reproduction And Commodification Of Art In The Age Of The Capitalist Spectacle By Donald Kuspit
• The Gawain Poet By Lewis Putnam Turco

• Issue 20

  Fall 2010
• Shakespeare in Strange Places by H. R. Coursen

• Issue 21

  Winter 2011
• Shades in Time: Attitudes towards African Descendants in Mexico by Maria de la luz Matus-Mendoza
• “Lately I’ve Wondered” A Review of Rhina Espaillat’s Her Place in These Designs by Alfred Nicol
• The Gathering of the Elders by Wesli Court, a book review by Michael Palma

• Issue 23

  Spring 2012
• “All His Mother’s Witcheries”: Milton and the Circe Myth by Paul D. Green, Ph.D.
• Introduction by Lynn Levin
• Seeing The Monument by Meredith Bergmann
• “The End of March”: Bishop and Stevens on the Sublime—Union or Relation? by Shaune Bornholdt
• Elizabeth Bishop, “The Armadillo,” The Bomb, and Robert Lowell by Julie Kane
• Elizabeth Bishop and a Late Rescued Poem, “Breakfast Song” by Lynn Levin
• “Queer Light”: Hecht, Bishop and Bosch by Gregory Dowling
• Some Thoughts on Elizabeth Bishop's Imitation of George Herbert by James Matthew Wilson
• Rembrandt's Adult Jesus by Larry Silver

• Issue 25

  Fall 2012
• Stealth Altruism in Nazi Camps: Reaching Out in the Dark by Art Shostak
• How Best to put Horace into English by Burton Raffel

• Issue 26

  Winter 2012
• Interview with Robert Zaller by Charlotte Lenox

• Issue 27

  Spring 2013
• A Per Contra Interview with Burton Raffel by Miriam N. Kotzin
• Morality and Spirituality in Translation by Burton Raffel
• Transgenerational Development and the Rejection of Patriarchal Norms in Nigeria: A Review of Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference: A Book Review by Marlene De La Cruz-Guzmán
• Review of Yiddish Genesis: Essays: A Book Review by Paul D. Green
• Festschrift for Daniel G. Hoffman in Celebration of His 90th Birthday

• Issue 28

  Summer 2013
• Overture by David R. Slavitt. Reviewed by Valerie Fox
• Dames Rocket by Elaine Terranova. Reviewed by Therése Halscheid
• The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice by Nathan Leslie. Reviewed by Nicole Kline
• The New Baroque Abstraction by Donald Kuspit
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Reviewed by Wadzanai Mhute

• Issue 29

  Fall 2013
• Hide Island by Richard Burgin. Reviewed by Miriam N. Kotzin
• Ironic Play: Bruce Helander's Collages by Donald Kuspit
• Miss Plastique by Lynn Levin. Reviewed by M.G. Piety

• Issue 30

  Winter 2013
• Kathy In Animal Wonderland and The Suicide Of Language: Paul Celan's Poems by Donald Kuspit
• The Altarpiece: The Cross and the Crown (Book I) by Sarah Kennedy. Reviewed by Courtney Watson
• Prolific and Impish: In Tribute to David R Slavitt by Kelly Cherry
• David Slavitt by Daniel Mark Epstein
• Problems to Solve with Wit by Gail Holst-Warhaft
• David Slavitt by Burton Raffel
• A Few Notes on David R. Slavitt by John Ridland
• The Race is Not to the Swift by Mark Rudman
• To Do the Word: A Salute to an Old Friend by Henry Taylor
• David R. Slavitt, The Per Contra Interview by Miriam N. Kotzin

• Issue 31

  Spring 2014
• Back East by Michele Leavitt. Reviewed by Midge Goldberg
• Wave by Andrew Sofer. Reviewed by A.M. Juster
• The Per Contra Interview with John Ridland by Miriam N. Kotzin
• Making The Best Of Castration Anxiety: Robert Motherwell's Abstraction by Donald Kuspit
• Free Verse by Lewis Turco

• Issue 32

  Summer 2014
• Bilateral Asymmetry by Don Riggs. Reviewed by L.S. Bassen
• The Familiar Stranger by Lewis Turco. Reviewed by Miriam N. Kotzin
• One Berlin by M.G. Piety

• Issue 33

  Fall 2014
• Wandering Electron by Lee Slonimsky. Reviewed by Iris Jamahl Dunkle
• 'Warbling Charms' and 'Matrimonial Treason' by Paul D. Green
• Terminal by Jen Jolles

• Issue 34

  Winter 2014
• Proof by Elizabeth J. Coleman. Reviewed by Sharon Israel
• Frozen Latitudes by Therése Halscheid. Reviewed by Barbara Daniels
• City of Ladies by Sarah Kennedy. Reviewed by Courtney D. Watson
• Dolce Far Niente by David Slavitt
• from Under the Sign of Leo by Elaine Terranova
• Romare Bearden, Humanist Artist by Donald Kuspit

• Issue 35

  Spring 2015
• Metamorphosis, Numinosity, Focus: Marlene Yu’s Response to Nature by Donald Kuspit
• The Divine Sarah: Seeking Immortality through Film by Judith E. Stone
• Summer of the Long Knives by L. S. Bassen. Reviewed by Paul D. Green
• A Kind of Dream by Kelly Cherry. Reviewed by Garnett Kilberg Cohen
• Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales. Translated by Lynn Levin. Reviewed by Emily Yoon

• Issue 36

  Summer 2015
• Life In, Life Out by Avital Gad-Cykman. Reviewed by Antonio Carlos Santos
• Nighthawks by Katherine Hastings. Reviewed by Tim Suermondt
• Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World by James Thomas, Robert Shapard, and Christopher Merrill, eds. Reviewed by Miriam N. Kotzin
• Landscapes of Love by Donald Kuspit

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