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The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of CLC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 165, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Libraries, v. 32, April 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Belles Lettres, Fall 1993; v. 11, January 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Canadian Forum, February 2000 for “Repetition is Numbing, Not Haunting” by Kathleen Venema. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Chicago Tribune, February 6, 1994 for “Riding the Pause Control: What Would We Do, Asks Nicholson Baker, ‘If We Could Step In and Out of Time?,’” by Joanne Trestrail. October 1994 for “Two Teenage Girls, One Praying ‘For Things to Happen’,” by Victoria Jenkins. © 1994 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—The Christian Century, v. xcviii, June 3-10, 1981. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, November 21, 1968; June 25, 1998; April 1, 1999, June 15, 2000. © 1968, 1998, 1999, 2000 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor.—Colloquia Germanica, v. 27, 1994 for “(Re) Visions of the Past: Memory and Historiography” by Brigitte Rossbacher. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Contemporary Literature, v. 28, Fall 1987. Copyright © 1987 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cross Currents, Dobbs Ferry, v. xxxvi, Fall, 1996. Copyright 1996 by Cross Currents Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in French Literature, November 1991. Reproduced by permission.—GDR Bulletin, v. 24, Spring 1997 for “Reunification and Literature: Monika Maron from Die Uberlauferin to Stille Zeile Sechs,” by Andrea Reiter. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Georgia Review, Winter 1999. Copyright, 1999, by the University of Georgia. Reproduced by permission.—German Quarterly, v. 71, Winter 1998. Copyright © 1998 by the American Association of Teachers of German. Reproduced by permission.—Harper’s Magazine, v. 299, August 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Harper’s Magazine. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hollins Critic, v. 25, February 1988. Copyright 1988 by Hollins College. Reproduced by permission.—Hudson Review, v. 45, Autumn 1992. Copyright © 1992 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Commonwealth Literature, v. 35, Fall 2000. Reproduced with the kind permission of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts part of Cambridge Information Group.—Library Journal, May 15, 1996 for “Requiem for the Discarded” by Nicholson Baker and David Dodd./June 1, 2001 for “Double-Edged: Is Nicholson Baker a Friend of Libraries?” by Nicholson Baker and Andrew Richard Albanese. Copyright © 1996, 2001 by Reed Elsevier, USA. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—London Review of Books, December 10, 1998 for “A Predilection for the Zinger” by Rebecca Mead. Appears here by permission of the London Review of Books and the author./March 26, 1992; March 24, 1994. Appears here by permission of the London Review of Books.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 30, 1986; April 1, 1990; May 12, 1991; February 13, 1994; July 31, 1994; May 5, 1996; May 10, 1998; March 28, 1999. Copyright, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1994,1996, 1998, 1999, Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times, October 13, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 40, Winter 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Jewish Studies, v. vii, 1990 for “Wiesel’s Night as Anti-Bildungsroman” by David L. Vanderwerken. © Copyright 1990 by Joseph C. Landis. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Modern Language Studies, v. xiv, Winter 1984 for “Elie Wiesel: The Inward Eyewitness in The Testament,” by Eli Pfefferkorn./v. xxiv, Fall 1994 for “Expanding Time: The Art of Elie Wiesel in the Gale of the Forest” by Joyce B. Lazarus. Copyright, Northeast Modern Language Association 1984, 1994. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—National Review, v. 34, May 14, 1982; v. 38, May 9, 1986; v. 43, April 15, 1991; v. 66, June 13, 1994; v. 49, March 24, 1997; v. 51, April 19, 1999. Copyright © 1986, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999 by National Review, Inc, 215 Lexington Avenue. New York, NY 10016. Reproduced by permission.—New Leader, v. 69, February 24, 1986; December 18, 1995; v. 82, December 13, 1999.© 1986, 1995, 1999 by The American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—New Republic, v. 151, September 15, 1964; May 28, 2001; v. 224, June 18, 2001. © 1964, 2001 The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman, January 8,1999. © 1999 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman and Society, April 19, 1991; March 22, 1996. © 1991, 1996 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, April 26, 2001 for “The Great Book Massacre,” by Robert Darnton. Reproduced with permission of the author./ v. 8, March 23, 1967; v. xxi, February 7, 1974; May 8, 1986; April 9, 1992; April 7, 1994; June 20, 1996; October 22, 1998. Copyright © 1967, 1974, 1986, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 Nyrev, Inc. All reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—New York Times, v. 28, July 1988 for “Adam and Cain in the Madhouse,” by Stanley Moss. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Notre Dame English Journal, v. xi, October 1978 for “Jewish Messianism and Elie Wiesel,” by Byron Sherwin. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Paris Review, v. 43, Spring-Summer 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Ploughshares, v. 24, Fall 1998 for “About Lorrie Moore” by Don Lee. Reproduced by permission.—Poets and Writers, v. 28, September-October 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Public Relations Quarterly, v. 39, Summer 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Publishers Weekly, v. 238, January 25, 1991; August 24, 1998; v. 247, April 24, 2000. Copyright 1991, 1998, 2000 by Reed Publishing USA. Reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA., by permission.—Rackham Journal for the Arts and Humanities, 1993 for “The Defector: The Newly Born Woman?,” by Frauke E. Lenckos. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Americaines, v. 20, 1987 for “‘The Tuning of Memory’: Alistair MacLeod’s Short Stories,” by Colin Nicholson. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Religion and Reading of Elie Wiesel, v. 24, Spring 1992 for “From Night to Twilight: A Philosopher’s Reading of Elie Wiesel,” by John K. Roth. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 16, Fall 1996; , v. 18, Fall 1998; v. 19, Spring 1999. Copyright, 1996, 1998, 1999 by John O’Brien. Reproduced by permission.—The Social Studies, v. 87, May-June 1996. Copyright © 1996 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Soundings, v. lxi, Spring 1978. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Humanities Review, v. 35, Summer 2001 for “And the Sea is Never Full: Memoires, 1969-,” by Carole J. Lambert. Copyright 2001 by Auburn University. Reproduced by permission of the author./ v. viii, Spring 1974. Copyright 1974 by Auburn University. Reproduced by permission.—Spectator, May 25, 1991; March 14, 1992; November 12, 1994; October 24, 1998. © 1991,1992, 1994, 1998 by The Spectator. 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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 165, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Anderson, Susan C. From Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture. University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by University of Nebraska Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Avni, Ora. From Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture and “The Jewish Question in France.” Routledge, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Routledge, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brockmann, Stephen. From Literature and German Reunification. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Kane, Martin. From Literature on the Threshold: The German Novel in the 1980’s. Berg, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes and Roland Smith. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lukens, Nancy. From Studies in GDR Culture and Society: Selected Papers from the Thirteenth New Hampshire Symposium on the German Democratic Republic.

University of America Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by University of America Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Saltzman, Arthur. From Understanding Nicholson Baker. University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by University of South Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Schmidt,

Ricarda. From Women and the Wende: Social Effects and Cultural Reflections of the German Unification Process. Rodopi, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Rodopi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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