... Security State. By Timothy Melley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2012. x, 289 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $26.95. No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives. By Steven Belletto. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2012. vii, 206 pp. $65.00. The Naked Communist: Cold War...

...Christian Moraru Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire . By Maus Derek C. . Columbia : Univ. of South Carolina Press . 2011 . xvi, 247 pp. $49.95 . On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War . By Grausam Daniel...

...Joseph Darda The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side . By Kate A. Baldwin . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2016 . xviii, 236 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper, $45.00 ; e-book, $39.99 . Reading America: Citizenship...

...Alan Nadel Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature . By Josephine Nock-Hee Park . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . vii, 310 pp. Cloth, $115.00 ; paper, $33.95 ; e-book available. Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American...

...Steven Belletto From a Cold War literary and cultural studies perspective, the Korean War (1950–1953) is a distinctive moment in US cultural history. This essay proposes that there are two broad phases of Korean War literature: the first phase is work written in the 1950s and early 1960s generally...

... is in place: African American patriarchs have replaced white ones, leaving women, youth, and the light-skinned to find their own subversive voices. Jené Lee, Duke University Elizabeth Bishop’s World War II–Cold War...

.... Guys like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics. By Michael Davidson. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. ix, 281 pp. Paper, $22.50. Most contemporary studies of American poetry situate one or two poets’ works in a historical context that is then mediated by a third thematic term...

... of the Early Cold War . By Arthur Redding. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2008. xi, 183 pp. $50.00. Book Reviews National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of His- tory in Japan, France, and the United States. By Christopher L. Hill. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ...

...Patricia E. Chu Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South . By Leslie Bow. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2010. x, 285 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War . By Jodi Kim. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota...

...Richard Jean So So’s essay reconstructs a literary genealogy for the emergence of “information warfare” in the early Cold War period (the 1950s). Specifically, it argues that this form of warfare—which So dubs “literary information warfare”—took shape first and most keenly within the US state’s...

...Spencer Morrison Morrison’s essay calls for closer scholarly attention to Faulknerian geography in its historical specificity by demonstrating the effects of post-WWII urban crisis on Faulkner’s Cold War writing. To this end, the article reads Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun (1951) as not only...

...Avery Slater Abstract This article examines early Cold War attempts to generate poetry using computers. Set between the end of World War II and the rise of personal computing, computer-generated poetry from this period was shaped not only by artists but also the university lab, the defense...

...Richard Purcell The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962–2007 . By Bachner Sally . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2011 . vii , 172 pp. Paper, $24.95 ; e-book, $24.95 . Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives . By Seed David . Kent, OH...

...Paul Giles Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry . By Quinn Justin . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . x, 218 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; e-book available. After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East . By Edwards Brian T. . New...

...Jeff Allred Melting-Pot Modernism . By Wilson Sarah . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2010 . ix , 264 pp. $45.00 . Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America . By Genter Robert . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2010 . vii , 375 pp...

...Mary Helen Washington Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism . By Ziegler James . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2015 . xxii, 229 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $30.00 . Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism . By Avilez GerShun . Urbana : Univ...

...? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America . By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar González. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 200. 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel . By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. Book...

...Martin Joseph Ponce © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States . By Eric Keenaghan. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2009. x, 196 pp. $39.95. Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous...

... . By Elizabeth Young. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 307 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $23.00. Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America . By Matthew J. Costello. New York: Continuum. 2009. viii, 293 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $24.95. Book Reviews Shades...

... of the New West or Noreen Groover Lape’s West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western Frontiers. Betsy Klimasmith, University of Massachusetts at Boston Condensing the Cold War: ‘‘Reader’s Digest’’ and American Identity. By Joanne P. Sharp. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press...