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Abbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. Reviewed by David Herman in symploke Vol. 11, Nos. 1-2 (2003): 263-264.
Adorno, Theodor W. Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2006. Reviewed by Steven Helmling in symploke Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2 (2007): 353-358.
Ali, Tariq. Conversations with Edward Said. London: Seagull Books, 2006. Reviewed by William V. Spanos in symploke Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2 (2007): 326-330.
Allitt, Patrick. I’m the Teacher, You’re the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005. Reviewed by Andrew Hoberek in symploke Vol. 14, Nos. 1-2 (2006): 360-361.
Anderson, Perry. The Origins of Postmodernity. London. New York: Verso, 1998. Reviewed by Christian Moraru in symploke Vol. 6, Nos. 1-2 (1998): 188-191.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Experiments in Ethics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2008. Reviewed by Horace L. Fairlamb in symploke Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (2008): 324-327.
Badiou, Alain. Metapolitics. Trans. Jason Barker. London: Verso, 2005. Reviewed by Andrew J. Taggart in symploke Vol. 14, Nos. 1-2 (2006): 297-305.
Badiou, Alain. The Century. Alberto Toscano. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity P, 2008. Reviewed by Andrew Taggart in symploke Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (2008): 311-313.
Ball, Howard, S.D. Berkowitz, and Mbulelo Mzamane, eds. Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities: A Transdisciplinary Approach. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998. Reviewed by Patrick Bruch in symploke Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2 (2002): 196-200.
Barta, Peter I., ed. Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilization. London: Routledge, 2001. Reviewed by Kathleen M. Ahern in symploke Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2 (2002): 222-224.
Barta, Peter I., Allen Miller, Charles Platter, and David Shepherd, eds. Carnivalizing Difference: Bakhtin and the Other. London: Routledge, 2001. Reviewed by Lee Templeton in symploke Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2 (2002): 210-212.
Baudrillard, Jean. Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit. Trans. Chris Turner. London and New York: Verso, 1998. Reviewed by Christian Moraru in symploke Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2 (1999): 197-202.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Globalization: The Human Consequences. New York: Columbia UP, 1998. Reviewed by Christian Moraru in symploke Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2 (1999): 197-202.
Bell, Jeffrey A. Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2006. Reviewed by Adrian Parr in symploke Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2 (2007): 388-390.
Berman, Jessica. Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2001. Reviewed by Aaron Jaffe in symploke Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2 (2002): 227-228.
Bertens, Hans, and Douwe Fokkema, eds. International Postmodernism. Theory and Practice. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1996. Reviewed by Christian Moraru in symploke Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2 (1997): 236-239.
Bérubé, Michael. What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. Reviewed by Sharon O'Dair in symploke Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2 (2007): 359-363.
Black, Jeremy. The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2004. Reviewed by Skip Willman in symploke Vol. 13, Nos. 1-2 (2005): 350-352.
Bleich, David. Know and Tell: A Writing Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre, and Membership. Portsmouth, NH: Boyton/Cook Publishers, 1998. Reviewed by Eve Wiederhold in symploke Vol. 6, Nos. 1-2 (1998): 197-200.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Don DeLillo. Bloom's Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2003. Reviewed by Chris Porter in symploke Vol. 13, Nos. 1-2 (2005): 366-367.
Boellstorff, Tom. Coming of Age in the Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtuallyl Human. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008. Reviewed by Zicodas Serapis in symploke Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (2008): 364-366.
Bogue, Ronald. Deleuze's Way: Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics. Aldershot:, UK: Ashgate, 2007. Reviewed by Darren Jorgenson in symploke Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (2008): 360-362.
Borgo, David. Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age. New York and London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005. Reviewed by Brian A. Smith in symploke Vol. 14, Nos. 1-2 (2006): 362-363.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Contre-feux 2: Pour un mouvement social européen. Paris: Raisons d'agir, 2001. Reviewed by Vincent B. Leitch in symploke Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 (2001): 161-164.
Brantlinger, Patrick. Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2003. Reviewed by Todd Starkweather in symploke Vol. 12, Nos. 1-2 (2004): 303-305.
Breckenridge, Carol A., Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Babha, Dipesh Chakrabarty, guest eds. Cosmopolitanism. Public Culture 12.3, Fall 2000. Reviewed by Christian Moraru in symploke Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 (2001): 205-207.
Brody, Jennifer DeVere. Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2008. Reviewed by Yung-Hsing Wu in symploke Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (2008): 318-320.
Brown, Nicholas, and Imre Szeman, eds. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Reviewed by Allen Dunn in symploke Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 (2001): 202-204.
Bruns, Gerald L. On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly. New York: Fordham UP, 2006. Reviewed by Joel Weinsheimer in symploke Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2 (2007): 376-377.
Bryant, Levi R. Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2008. Reviewed by Ronald Bogue in symploke Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (2008): 327-329.
Buchanan, Ian. Deleuzism: A Metacommentary. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. Reviewed by Kalliopi Nikolopoulou in symploke Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 (2001): 213-214.
Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda, eds. Deleuze and Music. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2004. Reviewed by Brian A. Smith in symploke Vol. 13, Nos. 1-2 (2005): 363-364.
Buchanan, Ian. Frederic Jameson: Live Theory. London: Continuum, 2007. Reviewed by Darren Jorgensen in symploke Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2 (2007): 396-398.
Burke, Lucy, Tony Crowley, and Alan Girvin, eds. The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2000. Reviewed by Christian Moraru in symploke Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2 (2000): 231-232.
Burns, Bill, Cathy Busby, and Kim Sawchuk, eds. When Pain Strikes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Reviewed by Elizabeth Harper in symploke Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2 (1999): 211-212.
Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997. Reviewed by Jack Green and Julie M. Thompson in symploke Vol. 6, Nos. 1-2 (1998): 205-207.
Butler, Judith. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso, 2004. Reviewed by Paul Smith in symploke Vol. 12, Nos. 1-2 (2004): 254-260.
Butler, Judith, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek. Contingency, Hegemony, Universality. Contemporary Dialogues on the Left. London. New York: Verso, 2000. Reviewed by Christian Moraru in symploke Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 (2001): 205-207.
Cartelli, Thomas. Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Reviewed by Liedeke Plate in symploke Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2 (2000): 225-226.
Cassidy, Marsha. What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s. Austin: U of Texas P, 2005. Reviewed by Christine Becker in symploke Vol. 13, Nos. 1-2 (2005): 349-350.
Caughie, Pamela L., ed. Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. London and New York: Garland, 2000. Reviewed by Liedeke Plate in symploke Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 (2001): 209-210.
Cavell, Stanley. Must We Mean What We Say?. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. Reviewed by R.M. Berry in symploke Vol. 11, Nos. 1-2 (2003): 237-241.
Caws, Mary Ann, ed. Manifesto: A Century of Isms. Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska P, 2001. Reviewed by Gail McDonald in symploke Vol. 11, Nos. 1-2 (2003): 261-262.
Caws, Mary Ann. Surprised in Translation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Reviewed by Dinda L. Gorlée in symploke Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2 (2007): 341-352.
Certeau, Michel de, Luce Giard, and Pierre Mayol. The Practice of Everyday Life, Volume 2: Living & Cooking. Trans. Timothy J. Tomasik. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998. Reviewed by Elaine Martin in symploke Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2 (1999): 208-210.
Chai, Leon. Romantic Theory: Forms of a Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era. The Johns Hopkins UP, 2006. Reviewed by Mark Canuel in symploke Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 335-338.
Cheah, Pheng, Bruce Robbins, eds. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998. Reviewed by Christian Moraru in symploke Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2 (1999): 197-202.
Chow, Rey. The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work. Durham, NC and London: Duke UP, 2006. Reviewed by Robin Truth Goodman in symploke Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2 (2007): 381-383.
Clark, Christine, and James O'Donnell, eds. Becoming and Unbecoming White: Owning and Disowning a Racial Identity. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. Reviewed by Patrick Bruch in symploke Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2 (2002): 196-200.
Claussen, Detlev. Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius. Rodney Livingstone. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belnap P, 2008. Reviewed by Steven Helmling in symploke Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (2008): 379-382.