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The Quarterly Conversation | Issue 11 | Spring 2008


FEATURES


Over and Under

Our opinionated contributors pick 10 overrated books and 10 underrated books. [more]


Where the Readers Are
Essay by
Sam J. Miller

Stephen King may be the loudest, but he isn't the only one to proclaim the short story dead. Sam J. Miller argues people are just reading it in new ways. [more]


France's Foremost Absurdist
Essay by
François Monti

How do you turn the death of the last orangutan into fiction? François Monti investigates Eric Chevillard and argues that his untranslated Destroying Nisard sheds light on America's book review crisis. [more]


The Sound of Myself
Essay by
Barrett Hathcock

The Internet makes you feel more ignorant, argues Barrett Hathcock. It might actually make you more ignorant too. [more]

Denis Johnson's Varieties of Religious Experience
Essay by
John Isaac Lingan

John Isaac Lingan examines how William James's view of "religious genius" unlocks the novels of Tree of Smoke–author Denis Johnson. [more]

REVIEWS


Bonnie Stolzmann
Oil on canvass
Courtesy of the artist

The Power of Flies
by Lydie Salvayre

review by Lee Rourke

It Was Like My Trying to Have
a Tender-Hearted Nature
by Diane Williams

review by Sacha Arnold

Guantanamo
by Dorothea Dieckmann

review by Martin Riker

Dirt for Art's Sake by Elisabeth Ladenson
review by Scott Esposito

Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann
review by Scott Bryan Wilson

Best American Magazine Writing 2007
review by Elizabeth Wadell

Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
review by Scott Esposito

Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
review by Richard Grayson

Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
review by Daniel Whatley


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