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Volume 149

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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 149, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

The Advocate, December 19, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The American Scholar, v. 67, Summer, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by the United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Reproduced by permission.—The Antioch Review, v. 53, Fall, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by the Antioch Review Inc. Reproduced by permission of the editors.—Book World–The Washington Post, v. XV, April 28, 1985 for “Fight for Feminism” by Elisabeth Griffith; v. XIX, February 19, 1989; October 3, 1993; March 19, 1995; April 4, 1999; June 27, 1999; September 17, 2000. © 1999, 2000,Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Business History, v. 41, January, 1999. Copyright 1999 Frank Cass & Company Ltd. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Chicago Tribune Books, October 23, 1988 for “An Insane Asylum Serves as Setting for the Early Lem,” by Wanda Urbanska; April 2, 1995 for “Novel Complications: Michael Chabon’s ‘Wildly Funny’ Tale of a Problem-Plagued Writer’s Final Fling,” by Shelby Hearon; April 7, 1996 for “Life in the Jazz Lane: The Misery of Stan Getz, the Loneliness of Dark Rooms and the State of the Music,” by John Litweiler; May 16, 1999 for “Exploring Our Inner Conﬂicts” by Donna Seaman. © 1988, 1995, 1996, 1999 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—The Christian Science Monitor, v. 81, June 9, 1989 for “Feminist Views of a Victorian Poet” by Merle Rubin; v. 86, January 12, 1994 for “Du Maurier and Rebecca Revisited” by Merle Rubin. © 1989 by Merle Rubin; © 1994 by Merle Rubin. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Contemporary Literature, v. XXXV, Summer, 1994. © 1994 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Reproduced by permission.—Criticism, v. XXXVIII, Spring, 1996. Copyright © 1996 Wayne State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Critique, v. XXXVI, Spring, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Encounter, v. LXVII, November, 1986 for “Seeing & Believing” by John Mole. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Extrapolation, v. 29, Spring, 1988; v. 33, Spring, 1992; v. 35, Winter, 1994. © 1988, 1992, 1994 by The Kent State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The Georgia Review, v. XLIII, Winter, 1989. Copyright 1989, by the University of Georgia. Reproduced by permission./Vol. XLVI, Summer, 1992 for “Heart Troubles” by Greg Johnson. Copyright, 1992, by the University of Georgia. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Historian, v. 49, November, 1986. Reproduced by permission. —The Hudson Review, v. XLII, Spring, 1989; v. XLVIII, Autumn, 1995. Copyright © 1989, 1995 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Interdisciplinary History, v. 17, Autumn, 1986. Reproduced by permission of The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.—These articles ﬁrst appeared in The London Review of Books, March 19, 1987 for “Agreeing with Berger” by Peter Campbell/v. 15, June 24, 1993 for “Something about Her Eyes” by Patricia Beer. Appear here by permission of the London Review of Books and the author. www.lrb.co.uk.—Los Angeles Times, April 27, 1995; April 6, 1998; June 17, 1999; October 9, 2000. Copyright, 1995, 1998, 2000 Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angles Times Book Review, March 17, 1985; May 31, 1991; June 9, 1991; December 26, 1993. Copyright, 1985, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000 Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission. —Tighe, Carl, “Stanislaw Lem: Socio-Political Sci-Fi,” in Modern Language Review,

v. 94, Part 3, July, 1999. © Modern Humanities Research Association 1999. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. —New Directions for Women, v. 14, July-August, 1985 for “Signiﬁcant Stories Told” by Marge Wyndgaarden. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The New Leader, June 14-28, 1999. © 1999 by The American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The New Republic, November 7, 1988; June 26, 1995; May 20, 1996. © 1988, 1995, 1996 The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman, May 8, 1970; January 22, 1971; June 22, 1984; October 19, 1984; January 23, 1987; June 8, 1997; April 17, 1998. © 1970, 1971, 1984, 1987, 1997, 1998 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman & Society, v. 88, November 8, 1974; v. 1, June 24, 1988; June 21, 1991; November 26, 1993; v. 7, July 29, 1994; October 28, 1994; June 9, 1995; v. 8, October 6, 1995. © 1974, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—The New Yorker, November 8, 1993 for “Rereading Rebecca” by Sally Beauman. © 1993 by the author. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Parnassus, v. 11, Fall-Winter, 1983 & Spring-Summer, 1984 for “Child of This World” by R.W.Flint; v. 21, 1996 for “Foot Soldier for Life”

by Harold Beaver. Copyright © 1984, 1996 Poetry in Review Foundation, NY. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author.— Ploughshares, v. 17, Fall, 1991 for a review of “A Model World and Other Stories” by Kathryn Herold. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Poetry, v. CXLV, December, 1984 for a review of “The Best Hour of the Night” by Paul Breslin. © 1984 by the Modern Poetry Association. Reproduced by permission of the Editor of Poetry and the author.—Publishers Weekly, v. 242, April 10, 1995. Copyright Reed Publishing USA 1995. Reproduced by permission.— Reason, v. 33, May, 2001. Copyright 2001 Reason Foundation. Reproduced by permission.—Science-Fiction Studies, v. 13, Part 3, November, 1986; v. 19, Part 2, July, 1992; v. 21, Part 2, July, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—First published in The Sewanee Review, v. 104, n. 1, Winter, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The University of the South. Reproduced with permission of the editor.—Southern Humanities Review, v. 34, Spring, 2000. Copyright 2000 by Auburn University. Reproduced by permission.—The Spectator, London, January 23, 1971; July 23, 1988; March 18, 1989; September 2, 1989; July 7, 1990; May 11, 1991; November 20, 1993; June 25, 1994; September 23, 1995; June 15, 1996; April 19, 1997; April 25, 1998; October 17, 1998; June 26, 1999. © 1971, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 32, Winter, 1995. Copyright 1995 by Newberry College. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, April 24, 1987; June 2-8, 1989; March 24-30, 1989; March 3-9, 1989; February 9-15, 1990; July 20-26, 1990; April 26, 1991; May 10, 1991; June 7, 1991; April 3, 1992; April 9, 1993; December 3, 1993; November 11, 1994; April 21, 1995; June 23, 1995; June 30, 1995; September 29, 1995; May 31, 1996; March 28, 1997; November 7, 1997; November 6, 1998; March 5, 1999; October 6, 2000. © The Times Supplements Ltd. 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Utopian Studies, v. 9, Spring, 1998. Copyright 1998 Society for Utopian Studies. Reproduced by permission.—Victorian Studies, v. 34, Autumn, 1990 for a review of “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography” by Deirdre David; Victorian Studies, Winter, 1990 for a review of “Thackeray: Prodigal Genius” and “Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman: William Makepeace Thackeray” by Frederick Busch. Reproduced by permission of Indiana University Press and respective authors.—World and I, v. 16, February, 2001. Copyright 2001 News World Communications, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 58, Autumn, 1984; v. 59, Winter, 1985; v. 61, Spring, 1987; v. 64, Autumn, 1990; v. 64, Spring, 1990; v. 65, Winter, 1991; v. 68, Winter, 1994; v. 69, Summer, 1995; v. 70, Summer, 1996; v. 70, Winter, 1996. Copyright 1984, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced by permission.—The Yale Review, v. 84, January, 1996. Copyright 1996, by Yale University. Reproduced by permission of the editors and Blackwell Publishers.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 149, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Bly, Robert. From “The Work of Louis Simpson,” in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness. Edited by Hank Lazer. The University of Michigan Press, 1988. Copyright © by the University of Michigan. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lending, George S. and Ronald Morn. From Four Poets and the Emotive Imagination: Robert Bly, James Wright, Louis Simpson, and William Stafford. Louisiana State University Press, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Louisiana State University Press.— Locke, Duane. From “New Directions in Poetry: The Work of Louis Simpson,” in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness. Edited by Hank Lazer. The University of Michigan Press, 1988. Copyright © by the University of Michigan. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Makuck, Peter. From “Caviare,” in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness. Edited by Hank Lazer. The University of Michigan Press, 1988. Copyright © by the University of Michigan. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Nepo, Mark. From “Poetry and Its Genesis in the Twentieth Century,” in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness. Edited by Hank Lazer. The University of Michigan Press, 1988. Copyright © by the University of Michigan. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Stitt, Peter. From The World’s Hieroglyphic Beauty: Five American Poets. The University of Georgia Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by the University of Georgia Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Stitt, Peter. From The World’s Hieroglyphic Beauty: Five American Poets. The University of Georgia Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by the University of Georgia Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Swirski, Peter. From A Stanislaw Lem Reader. Northwestern University Press, 1997. Compilation copyright © 1997 by Peter Swirski. Reproduced by permission.

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Chabon, Michael, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Dyer, Geoff, photograph. Little Brown & Company. Reproduced by permission.—Forster, Margaret, photograph. Mark Gerson Photography. Reproduced by permission.—Lem, Stanislaw, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Simpson, Louis, Berkeley, California, 1964, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

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