April, 2023
Contents of Volume XCVII
April 2023 Number Two
Fourteen Reflections After 32 Years
Hildi Froese Tiessen
Plain Poetry for Plain People
Ervin Beck
Reading Toews Reading Camus: Existentialist Echoes
in Miriam Toews’s “Secular Mennonite” Ethics and Aesthetics
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
Rudy Wiebe and Those Mennonite Readers, 1984:
Laughing Matters
Paul Tiessen
“Near the Stacks of the East Village Public Library”:
On Intertextuality as Mennonite Literary History
Robert Zacharias
Authority, Storytelling, and Community:
Keynote speech, Mennonite/s Writing Conference IX
Casey Plett
Toward a Mennonite Eco-Hymnody
Joseph Harder
News and Announcements
Book Reviews
Brandt, Di. The Sweetest Dance on Earth: New and Selected Poems.
Reviewed by Jeff Gundy
Enns, Sarah. Flyway
Reviewed by Alyssa Sherlock
Gundy, Jeff. Wind Farms: Landscape with Stories and Towers.
Reviewed by Luke Beck Kreider
Kasdorf, Julia Spicher. As Is.
Reviewed by Ann Hostetler
Klassen, Sarah. The Russian Daughter: A Novel.
Reviewed by Hildi Froese Tiessen
Nickel, Barbara. Essential Tremor: Poems.
Reviewed by Connie T. Braun
Samatar, Sofia. The White Mosque: A Memoir.
Reviewed by Ervin Beck
Toews, Miriam. Fight Night.
Reviewed by Daniel Shank Cruz
Yoder, Rachel. Nightbitch.
Reviewed by Jessica Baldanzi