Books for Review

289 Books for Review [the minnesota review welcomes proposals for reviews of these and other recent books, as well as of journals, significant articles, publishers' catalogs or programs, book series, conferences, novels, poetry, films, television, advertising , and other venues of culture and intellectual bearing. For reviews, we much prefer overviews to reports on specific books. For examples, check out the review-essays in this and past issues.—Jeffrey Williams, Editor] Abraham, Julie. Are Girls Necessary? Lesbian Writing and Modern Histories. New York: Routledge, 1996. Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory. Trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor. Theory and History of Literature 88. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997. Bad Subjects Production Team. Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life. New York: NYU P, 1997. Bagdikian, Ben H. Double Vision: Reflections on my Heritage, Life, and Profession. Boston: Beacon, 1995. ---------. The Media Monopoly. 5th ed. Boston: Beacon, 1997. Barsky, Robert F. Noam Chomsky: A Life ofDissent. Cambridge: MIT P, 1997. Bauerlein, Mark. Literary Criticism: An Autopsy. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997. Behar, Ruth. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart. Boston : Beacon, 1996. Berlant, Lauren. The Queen ofAmerica Goes to Washington City. Durham: Duke UP, 1997. Bonosky, Phillip. Burning Valley. Intro. Alan WaId. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1998. Bourdieu, Pierre. The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field. Trans. Susan Emanuel. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996. Bristow, Joseph. Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1997. Brodersen, Momme. Walter Bejamin: A Biography. Trans. Malcolm R. Green and Ingrida Ligers. New York: Verso, 1996. Brown, Bill. The Material Unconcious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economics ofPlay. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1996. Brown, HomerObed. Institutions ofthe English Novel: From Defoe to Scott. Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P, 1997. Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997. Cheah, Pheng, and Bruce Robbins, eds. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998. Chomsky, Noam, et al. The Cold War & The University: Toward an InteUectual History ofthe Postwar Years. New York: New Press, 1997. Cixous, Hélène, and Mireille Calle-Gruber. Hélène Cixous Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing. Trans. Eric Prenowitz. New York: Routledge, 1997. Conboy, Katie, Nadia Medina, and Sarah Stanbury, eds. Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. Corber, Robert J. Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistanceand the Crisis of Masculinity. Durham: Duke UP, 1997. 290 the minnesota review Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. Dabney, Lewis M., ed. Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997. Daniel, Jamie Owen, and Tom Moylan, eds. Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch. New York: Verso, 1997. Daniels, Jim. Blessing the House. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1997. De Certeau, Michel. Cidture in Plural. Trans. Tom Conley. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998. Decker, Jeffery Louis. Made in America: Self-Styled Successfrom Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997. Deleuze, Gilles. Essays Critical and Clinical. Trans. Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997. Derrida, Jacques. Politics ofFriendship. Trans. George Collins. NewYork: Verso, 1997. --------, and Paul Thévenin. The Secret Art ofAntonin Artaud. Trans. Mary Ann Caws. Cambridge: MIT P, 1998. Dixon, Wheeler Winston. The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema. Albany: SUNY P, 1997. Dworkin, Dennis. Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins ofCultural Studies. Durham: Duke UP, 1997. Dyson, Michael Eric. Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Whiteness to Black Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. Edmundson, Mark. Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Cidture ofGothic. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997. Ellis, John M. Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption ofthe Humanities . New Haven: Yale UP, 1997. Feldstein, Richard. Political Correctness: A Response From the Cultural Left. Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P, 1997. Ferber, Marianne A., and Jane W. Loeb, eds. Academic Couples: Problems and Promises. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1997. Foster, Thomas, Carol Seigel, and Ellen E. Berry, eds. Sex Positives? The Cultural Politics ofDissident Sexualities. Genders 25. New York: NYU P, 1997. Frank, Thomas. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise ofHip Consumerism. Chicago...