Cold War fantasies : film, fiction, and foreign policy

On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War

Death in a cold climate : a guide to Scandinavian crime fiction

Crime files series

Crime files series.

Mythbusters. Collection 8

Mythbusters (Television program)

. Mythssion control ; No pain, no gain ; Duct tape hour 2 ; Waterslide wipeout ; Fireball stun gun -- Flu fiction ; Storm chasing myths ; Hair of the dog ; Arrow machine gun ; Cold feet.

After the program era : the past, present, and future of creative writing in the university

New American canon

New American canon.

Introduction: from the pound era to the program era, and beyond / The creative calling / From vagabond to visiting poet: Vachel Lindsay and the institutionalization of American poetry / Institutional itenerancy: Malcolm Cowley and the domestication of cosmopolitanism / Modernism and the MFA / Flannery O'Connor, the Cold War, and the Canon / Alternative degrees: "Works in OPEN" at Black Mountain College / Robert Coover, hypertext, and the technomodern pedagogy of fairy tales / What we talk about when we talk about Lish / Timely exile: James Alan McPherson, the Iowa writers' workshop, and black creativity / The program era and the mainly white room / Humanities fiction: a genre / "My Ghost Life": Russell Banks and the limits of aesthetic democracy / Getting real: from mass modernism to peripheral realism / From modernism to metamodernism: quantifying and theorizing the stages of the program era / Afterword. And then what?

William Faulkner in context

'Born there': Faulkner, Oxford, and Lafayette County / Primeval, goddam, and beyond: on Mississippi / A gulf society / William Faulkner's Caribbean poetics / What was Africa to Faulkner? / Cosmopolitan culture: from New Orleans to Paris / The Hollywood challenge / Topologies of discourse in Faulkner / 'It' and 'ole' in 1930: the structural economy of Faulkner's complex words / Modern sexuality / The cage of gender / The world of Jim Crow / South to the world: William Faulkner and the American century / Unsteady state: Faulkner and the Cold War / 'Truth so mazed': Faulkner and US plantation fiction / Faulkner and the modernist novel / Faulkner goes to Hollywood / Reading William Faulkner after the civil rights era / Writing past trauma: Faulkner and the Gothic / Faulkner and the paperback trade / Writing after Faulkner: Faulkner and contemporary US fiction / Reading Faulkner: empathy, distance, and Tehran / Faulkner and Latin America: Latin America in Faulkner / William Faulkner and Japan / Faulkner as/and the postcolonial writer / Translating Faulkner: can a translator be androgynous?

The eye of the story : selected essays and reviews

On writers: The radiance of Jane Austen -- Henry Green: novelist of the imagination -- Katherine Anne Porter: the eye of the story -- The house of Willa Cather -- Reality in Chekhov's stories -- On writing: Looking at short stories -- Writing and analyzing a story -- Place in fiction -- Words into fiction -- Must the novelist crusade? -- "Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead?" -- Some notes on time in fiction -- Reviews: The Western journals of Washington Irving / Names on the land / Granite and rainbow / The letters of Virginia Woolf, volume II / Charlotte's web / Intruder in the dust / Selected letters of William Faulkner / Marianne Thornton / The life to come, and other stories / The most of S.J. Perelman; Baby, its cold inside / The saddest story: a biography of Ford Madox Ford / The underground man / Last tales / The cockatoo / Pictures and conversations / Personal and occasional pieces: A sweet devouring -- Some notes on river country -- Fairy tale of the Natchez Trace -- A pageant of birds -- The flavor of Jackson -- The little store -- Ida M'Toy -- One time, one place.

The world's finest mystery and crime stories : fourth annual collection

The year in mystery and crime fiction, 2002 / A 2002 yearbook of crime and mystery / World mystery report, Great Britain / World mystery report, Canada / World mystery report, Germany / To live and die in Midland, Texas / Rules of the game / The wagon mound / Ghost writer / My cousin Rachel's Uncle Murray / Top of the world / Ere I killed thee / The Panama hen / Gracious silence / Cold-blooded / Lead...follow / Two sisters / Barefoot / Those are pearls that were his eyes / A mimicry of mockingbirds / The twin / The vampire theme / The devil that walks at noonday / The murder ballads / The vale of the white horse / A girl named Charlie / The adventure of the mooning sentry / Jon L. Breen -- Second story sunlight / A moment of wrong thinking / Too many cooks / The path to the shroud / Closer to the flame / Chalele / Wrong place, wrong time / Fleeting fashion / Flying fast / The best time for planting / The money to feed them / Mexican Gatsby / Three killings and a favor / War can be murder / The adventure of the agitated actress / Two in the same boat / Aftermath / Whispers of the dead / An empire's reach / Surveillance / The 2002 Edgar Allan Poe mystery fiction short-list.

The best of Fact

Fact.

Introduction / Some debatable points in American foreign policy / The man who thinks Goldwater is a communist / A psychiatric view of the Cold War / My husband, the Communist / The man who stood up / America's hospitals : undercure in an age of overkill / Seduction of the guilty : homosexuality in American prisons / Situation wanted : Lawyer, 35, seeks position as janitor / Needed : Medicare for the chronically ill / Rockefeller's millions : the poor people of New York / The psycho ward : an attendant's view / The golden age of graffiti / Time : the weekly fiction magazine -- The great smokescreen / The free press : an obit / Muzak : chewing gum for the mind / The great insurance swindle / Suzi, what's a nice girl like you doing in jail? / How Louella Mae Burns just missed becoming a famous writer / Why 7 out of 10 cops will use the 3rd degree / Help wanted : honest, intelligent people to run employment agencies / The misleading advertisements of Bayer aspirin / The bellicose Mr. Belli / The unkindest cut of all / How a middle-class American housewife goes about getting an abortion / The final question -- The burgeoning estates of the First Estate / Who killed Kennedy? -- A psychiatric study of jokes about psychiatrists / Of transcendental beauty and crawling horror / Beyond the 25th Amendment / Is America a dying country?

Tennessee Williams

Critical insights

Critical insights.

On Tennessee Williams / Biography of Tennessee Williams / The Paris review perspective / The critical reception of the works of Tennessee Williams / Tennessee Williams on America / "Getting the colored lights going": expressionism in A streetcar named Desire / Mendacity on the stage: "lying and liars" in Cat on a hot tin roof / A gallery of witches / Culture, power, and the (en)gendering of community: Tennessee Williams and politics / Deranged artists: creativity and madness / Flying the Jolly Roger: images of escape and selfhood in The glass menagerie / "Fifty percent illusion": The mask of the southern belle in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire, The glass menagerie, and "Portrait of a Madonna" / Williams in ebony: black and multi-racial productions of A streetcar named Desire / "Something cloudy, something clear": homophobic discourse in Tennessee Williams / "sneakin' and spyin'" from Broadway to the Beltway: cold war masculinity, Brick, and homosexual existentialism / "Collecting evidence": the natural world in Tennessee Williams' The night of the iguana / Red devil battery sign: an approach to a mytho-political theatre / Tennessee Williams' Out cry in The two-character play / Peeping Tom: voyeurism, taboo, and truth in the world of Williams's short fiction / "The transmutation of experience": the aesthetics and themes of Williams's nonfiction

The literature/film reader : issues of adaptation

Issues of screen adaptation : what is truth? / It wasn't like that in the book-- / Literature vs. literacy : two futures for adaptation studies / Adaptation studies and the history of ideas : the case of Apocalypse now / Adaptation studies revisited : purposes, perspectives, and inspiration / Cold War's "undigested apple-dumpling" : imaging Moby-Dick in 1956 and 2001 / Trying harder : probability, objectivity, and rationality in adaptation studies / What is a "Shakespeare film," anyway? / Returning to Naples : seeing the end in Shakespeare film adaptation / Pop goes the Shakespeare : Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Reframing adaptation : representing the invisible (on The house of mirth, directed by Terence Davies, 2000) / Sucking Dracula : mythic biography into fiction into film, or Why Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is not really Bram Stoker's Dracula or Wallachia's Dracula / Vertigo, novel and film / Heinlein, Verhoeven, and the problem of the real : Starship troopers / Literary hardball : the novel-to-screen complexities of The Manchurian candidate / oak : a balancing act from page to screen / Adaptation and the Cold War : Mankiewicz's The quiet American / All the quiet Americans / Camille Claudel : biography constructed as melodrama / Memoir and the limits of adaptation / Getting it right : the Alamo on film / "Plains" speaking : sound, sense, and sensibility in Ang Lee's Ride with the devil / Where are we going, where have we been? / future of adaptation studies

Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban works

Hemingway : the man who worked in and enjoyed Cuba / Hemingway, parody or pastiche? / The Cuban Revolution / An interview with Gigi's All-Stars at Ernest Hemingway's Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, July 6, 2004 / Mary and Ernest : too close to see / The fishing was good too : Cuban writer claims torrid love affair with Jane Mason drew Hemingway to Havana / The state of things in Cuba : a letter to Hemingway / Selection from "It is hard for you to tell," chapter three of Cuba y Hemingway en el gran rio azul (Cuba and Hemingway on the Great Blue River) / The "matter of being expatriots" : Hemingway, Cuba, and inter-American literary study / A shared palette : Hemingway and Winslow Homer, painters of the Gulf Stream / "I am not religious -- but --" : The Virgin of El Cobre and Cuban Catholicism a mi propia manera / Hemingway's religious odyssey : the Afro-Cuban connection in two stories and The Old Man and the Sea / "You know the name is no accident" : Hemingway and the matter of Santiago / "Papa" and Fidel : Cold War, Cuba, and two interpretive communities / Into the terrain of the bull : Hemingway's "The Undefeated" / Death by drowning : trauma theory and Islands in the stream / Sea of plenty : The artist's role in Islands in the stream / Hemingway's impressionistic Islands / The context of Hemingway's personal art and the Caribbean subject / Trolling the deep waters : Hemingway's Cuban fiction and the critics / Hemingway : his impact in the Cuban press today / Hemingway and Cuba : a chronology.