A Note from the Review Editor

STAQINQ AUTHORSHIP: PINTER ANV SHEPARV Regal, Martin. HaroldPinter: A Question ofTiming. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. Rubenstein, Gilbert. "The Onomastic Sam Shepard." Names 37.3 (1989): 231-43. Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. Trans. Roy Harris. Ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye. Chicago/LaSalle: Open Court, 1992. Shepard, Sam. "Language, Visualization and the Inner Library" American Dreams. Ed. Bonnie Marranea. New York: PAJ, 1981. 214-19. ---------. Tongues. Sam Shepard: Seven Plays. New York: Bantam, 1981. ---------. True West. New York: Samuel French, 1981. Simard, Rodney. Postmodern Drama: Contemporary Playwrights in America and Britain. Lanham: UP ofAmerica, 1984. Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1975. Williams, Megan. "Nowhere Man and the Twentieth-Century Cowboy: Images of Identity and American History in Sam Shepard's 'True West.'" Modern Drama 40.1 (1997): 57-74. A NOTE FROM THE REVIEW EDITOR The last five years in which I have served as book review editor for The Comparatisi have been very rewarding. We have increased the overall number of reviews, included more in-depth review essays, tried to review more non-Western books, and have reached out to many new reviewers, sometimes even to colleagues in other fields who brought fresh perspectives. The review editorship has greatly increased my reading outside my special areas—quite intoxicating —but the greatest reward of the position has been working with the nearly one hundred reviewers. Thanks to all ofyou for your unique contributions to The Comparatisi and to comparative literature scholarship. I depart as book review editor knowing that I am leaving the task in the very capable hands of my successor, Elizabeth Richmond-Garza. I'm not really going very far, since, as the vice president, I'll continue to be active in the Association. See you at the SCLA! Elaine Martin Outgoing Book Review Editor VcH. 27 (2003): 164 ...