http://www.sfhreview.com Home Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:25:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Rienner Anthology of African Literature Edited by Anthonia C. Kalu. Lynne Rienner, Publishers Boulder, London 2007. pp. i-xiii,1-976 $125. ISBN: 9781588264916 Reviewed by Saul Steier, San Francisco State University. You know a field has “arrived” when its rich content is such that it is no longer possible to represent it adequately with ... http://www.sfhreview.com/articles/57 Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America’s Revolutionary Fathers by Gary Kowalski. BlueBridge, 2008. 215 pages. $22.00. ISBN: 1 933346094 Reviewed by Harriet Rafter, San Francisco State University. What were the religious beliefs of the men we consider this country’s Founding Fathers: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, ... http://www.sfhreview.com/articles/56 Reasonable Doubts, by Gianrico Carofiglio. Bitter Lemon Press, October 2007. 249 pp. $14.95 ISBN 1904738249 Reviewed by George J. Leonard, San Francisco State University. Since the SFHR is usually appealed to when works of merit can’t find appropriate reviews, we were slightly mystified to be sent the new legal thriller by Gianrico ... http://www.sfhreview.com/articles/55 Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature, by John D. Rosenberg. Anthem Press, July 2005. 288 pp. $26.95 ISBN 1843311542 Reviewed by George J. Leonard, San Francisco State University If I had to rest the case for the immortality of John D. Rosenberg’s prose on one paragraph, ... http://www.sfhreview.com/articles/51 Gloryland, by Anne Marie Macari. Alice James Books (September 30, 2005). 75pp. paperback $14.95 ISBN 1882295501 Ruin, by Cynthia Cruz. Alice James Books (September 1, 2006). 80pp. paperback $14.95 ISBN 1882295587 Reviews by George Leonard From that strange house, Alice James Press, which consistently offers remarkable works that defy poetic fashion, come almost ... http://www.sfhreview.com/articles/49 Sleepwalking Land, by Mia Couto. Translated by David Brookshaw. Serpent’s Tail (April 2006). 213pp. paperback $14.95 ISBN 185242897X Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, by D. T. Niane. Pearson Longman; 2nd edition (August 7, 2006). 120pp. paperback $16.00 ISBN 1405849428 Reviews by George Leonard I’ve been supposed to find someone to write a ... http://www.sfhreview.com/articles/48 While Europe Slept, by Bruce Bawer. DoubleDay, 2006. 256pp. hardcover $16.29 ISBN 0385514727 Bewildering Complexities of Integrating Muslims into Europe Review by Manfred Wolf A recent book, “While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within,” dwells on the habitual looking away of liberal European elites from the problems posed ... http://www.sfhreview.com/articles/47 Here, Bullet, poems by Brian Turner. Alice James Books, 2005. 71pp $14.95 paperback ISBN 1882295552 A review by George Leonard. From the time of the Iliad until World War I, war was one of poetry’s central topics, yet now the subject seems taboo; as if all other artists were allowed to address ... http://www.sfhreview.com/articles/45 Bodies of Work, essays by Kathy Acker. Serpent’s Tail, 1997. Reprinted with an Afterword by Cynthia Carr in 2006, 179pp $16.00 ISBN 1852424850 A review by George Leonard. When Kathy Acker died, the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State did something that I’d never seen before: they covered the wall of ... http://www.sfhreview.com/articles/41 Museum Skepticism: a History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries, by David Carrier. Duke University Press, 2006. xiii+313pp with bibliography and index. $16.00 ISBN 0822336944 Sean Scully by David Carrier. New York and London: Thames and Hudson, (224 pp, 190 color illustrations, 10 black and white.) $65.00 cloth. ... http://www.sfhreview.com/articles/40