...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 . 194  American Literature The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National...

...Lindsay Thomas This essay examines two kinds of speculative fiction focused on the management of climate change: preparedness documents on climate change as a threat to national security, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993–96), a science fiction trilogy about the terraformation...

... the sometimes monolithic focus on modernist or experimental writing in assessments of the postwar moment as an antiwar watershed. Vincent emphasizes war narrative's continuities with prior Progressive-Era longings for compulsory civic foundations as well as the bourgeoning culture of national security...

... was contingent upon enforced transparency to the broader suspicion of the more generalized “Oriental” as a figure whose opacity becomes an excuse for racialized surveillance and policing in the name of national security. As formerly interned or imprisoned individuals, Yamamoto’s and Okada’s protagonists begin...

... that troubles the ethical and political frameworks of border security. Doing so would not only make trans and gender nonconforming persons repeatedly bear the burden of exposing the power structures that underpin national security, but it would also imply that all trans and gender nonconforming people...

... and of conflict itself—that is, conflict as an aesthetic device within narrative as well as the thing being narrated, the manifestation of force between actors aboard the slave ship. Because the enforcement of US law and security by 1850 tended toward something supra-territorial if not transnational in scope...

... video, 1:00:37. From an interview streamed by Google on February 27. Posted March 4 . www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBDARw5fdrg . NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) . 1947 . National Security Act of 1947. Pub. L. No. 80–253, 61 Stat. 495 . ———. 1949 . National Security Act...

... and security, Mother Tongue irreverently questions the claims of modern nations to adequately rep- resent centuries of María’s indigenous, Sephardic, Spanish, and mes- tizo ancestors of the U.S. Southwest.40 Languages changed with mul- tiple sovereigns, which the politically naive María knows little about...

...- temology of containment by affirming that external threats exist and that protective barriers provide a measure of security against them. In this sense, the poem is a Kennanite cultural document, deriving from national...

.... He traces the literary use of computational methods back to little known partnerships between researchers of literature and national security agencies. His goal is to return computational criticism to a “material institutional context” that illuminates its implication in and compatibility...

..., proposes that there are universal values that are “right and true for every per- son, in every society,” as President George W. Bush suggests in his 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States of America, and that when disagreement occurs concerning these supposedly univer- sal...

....16509 . Weiner Rachel , Hsu Spencer S. , and Zapotosky Matt . 2020 . “ Paul Manafort Released from Prison, Granted Home Confinement Due to Coronovirus Fears .” Washington Post , May 13 . https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/paul-manafort-granted-home-confinement...

... . Vol. 1 of Automatic Society . Translated by Ross Daniel . Malden, MA : Polity Press . Suchman Lucy . 2021 . “ Six Unexamined Premises Regarding Artificial Intelligence and National Security .” Medium (blog), March 31 . https://medium.com/@AINowInstitute/six-unexamined...

.... Review: Melley, The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State, 194–97. Review: Végsö, The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture, 194–97. Review: Wald, American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War, 194–97. Greeson...

... of a contemporary American identity based around the “culture of flight.” Airports, he suggests, “are sites where modernity is confirmed or questioned; they are spaces of public display; they are contested zones where privacy and national security vie for priority; they are complex factories...

...- sity, assembles a diverse literary archive in which the West’s mythically open landscapes appear as refuse of our post–World War II national security state: arsenals, test sites, internment camps, dumps. In contrast, Starr, California’s State Librarian Emeritus, treats California’s ascent...

... archive in which the West’s mythically open landscapes appear as refuse of our post–World War II national security state: arsenals, test sites, internment camps, dumps. In contrast, Starr, California’s State Librarian Emeritus, treats California’s ascent in the 1950s to become the nation’s largest...

... archive in which the West’s mythically open landscapes appear as refuse of our post–World War II national security state: arsenals, test sites, internment camps, dumps. In contrast, Starr, California’s State Librarian Emeritus, treats California’s ascent in the 1950s to become the nation’s largest...

... archive in which the West’s mythically open landscapes appear as refuse of our post–World War II national security state: arsenals, test sites, internment camps, dumps. In contrast, Starr, California’s State Librarian Emeritus, treats California’s ascent in the 1950s to become the nation’s largest...

...- sity, assembles a diverse literary archive in which the West’s mythically open landscapes appear as refuse of our post–World War II national security state: arsenals, test sites, internment camps, dumps. In contrast, Starr, California’s State Librarian Emeritus, treats California’s ascent...