Larry McCaffery, in his collection of interviews with SF writers, also reviewed in this issue, argues that SF has become the pre-eminent literary genre of the postmodern era, since it alone has the ...

Such characterizations, not only reduce the feature wealth of both cyberpunk and postmodernism, but also dilute cyberpunk SF's normal specificity (and thus its specific novelty and effects) as a ...

Contemporary literature, literary theory, Asian American studies, narrative theory, gender, and class. The relationship of narrative forms to race, gender, and class/capitalism; cognitive cultural ...

John Barth, a novelist who crafted labyrinthine, fantastical tales that were at once bawdy and philosophical, placing him on ...

Robert Coover, who turned fairy tales, folk stories and other conventions of literature on their head in a career that made him one of the most noted writers in postmodern American letters ...