...Daniel Grausam The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State . By Melley Timothy . 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...

...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...

... were far different, of course, but there is no doubt that the Cold War—and the racial and gender politics it gave rise to—is still with us. Baldwin’s and Matthews’s cultural histories take us back to that Cold War future. But Matthews is less interested in what officials and organizations had...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West. By Suzanne Clark. 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 204 of 232 Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 251 pp. $34.95. In this valuable if somewhat narrowly conceived book, Suzanne Clark...

... 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...

...’’ (232). Melody Graulich, Editor, Western American Literature Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961. By Christina Klein. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2003. xiv, 316 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95. Embracing the East: White Women...

.... 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...

...John Whalen-Bridge Duke University Press 2002 John Some Versions of the Cold War Whalen- Bridge Cold War Poetry. By Edward Brunner. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2001. xxi, 300 pp. $29.95. The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs...

... 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...

... Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America. By Deborah Nelson. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2002. xxii, 209 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $17.50. Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative. By Patrick...

.... xxviii, 320 pp. $45.00. Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After. By Marcel Cornis-Pope. New York: Palgrave. 2001. xiii, 318 pp. $59.95. These three studies continue...

...Barton Keeton 2006 Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood . Andrew Brodie Smith. Boulder: Univ. Press of Colorado. 2003. viii, 230 pp. $34.95. Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History . Stanley Corkin...

...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...