American Reader May/June 2013

In our fifth/sixth issue, you can look forward to: + Four portfolios of new poetry: Jacqueline Waters, Matthew Rohrer, Liam Hysjulien, and Jameson Fitzpatrick.+ Short stories by Otto Jaffe, Joyce Carol Oates, Ramon Isao, as well as Carmen Maria Machado’s incantatory novella, Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU.+ The final chapter of Aisthesis, Jacques Rancière’s magnum opus on aesthetics and politics, with an introduction by Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon. + New literature from South Korea: poetry by Hwang Byeong-seung and Moon Tae-jun, and fiction by Park Min-gyu and Kim Aeran, with an introduction by Jenny Wang Medina.+ Book Reviews: on Francesco Pacifico’s The Story of My Purity, Anne Carson’s Red Doc>, A. G. Porta’s The No World Concerto, Ray Amorisi’s Lazarus, Charles Bernstein’s Recalculating, and Nicolas Hundley’s The Revolver in the Hive.