Avant-Propos

Avant-Propos As many of our readers will already be aware, minnesota review has relocated once again, thus continuing its long peripatetic tradition, which has taken it in previous incarnations to New York City, Bloomington, Indiana, and Corvallis, Oregon. Who knows but one day it might even return to the land of its spawning in Minnesota? In any event, it's now housed in the English Department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In moving from one coast to the other, mr has acquired some new editors, while hanging onto a few of the older heads to stabilize the transition period. Of the latter, Robert Wess remains Book Review Editor and has taken on some of the duties of criticism editor—officially now, since he's been working unofficially in that capacity for several years already. Fred Pfeil remains at his post of Fiction Editor, and Michael Sprinker stays right where he's always been—mostly out to lunch. New members of the editorial collective include Helen Cooper and Susan Squier, both of the English department at Stony Brook. Finally, Germaine Brée has been replaced in her capacity as Contributing Editor by E. Ann Kaplan. The present issue of mr was assembled while the magazine was still resident in Corvallis, so the current editors can only claim partial responsibility for its contents—although they do have to own up to having sole responsibility for editing and proofreading. Future issues will continue the general editorial policies regnant here in the past, in particular the wish to publish socialist and feminist works of high quality. Same shop, just some new brooms sweeping it, as a character somewhere in Faulkner remarks. We hope that our readers will remain ever faithful, and that they may possibly even encourage their friends to read mr. ...