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The Advocate, April 16, 1995; October 12, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—American Book Review, v. 7, July, 1985. Reproduced by permission.—American Indian Culture and Research Journal, v. 11, 1987 for “‘Her Laugh an Ace:’ The Function of Humor in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine,” by William Gleason. Reproduced by permission of the author.— American Literature, v. 67, December, 1995; v. 68, March, 1996. Copyright © 1995, 1996, Duke University Press. All right reserved. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher.—American Poetry Review, v. 17, July-August, 1988 for “Blessed Knock,” by Marianne Boruch. Reproduced by permission of the author.—American Scientist, v. 88, July-August, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Art in America, v. 88, July, 2000 for “Uncertainty Principal,” by Paula Harper. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Belles Lettres, v. 5, Summer, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Boston Review, v. 13, February, 1988 for a review of Turtle, Swan, by Steven Cramer; v. 18, October-November, 1993 for a review of My Alexandria, by Bruce Smith. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Chicago Tribune Books, May 5, 1996 for “Recovering the Past: Two Memoirs Speak Eloquently for a Generation Trying to Find Its Bearings in the Era of AIDS,” by Michael Upchurch. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Christian Science Monitor, v. 77, November 27, 1984 for “Engaging First Novel Records 50 Years on a Chippewa Reservation” by Ruth Doan MacDougall. © 1984 by Ruth Doan MacDougall. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Chronicle of Higher Education, v. 46, May 5, 2000 for “Frayn’s Copenhagen Plays Well, at Histories Expense,” by Paul Lawrence Rose. Reproduced by permission of the author.—College Literature, v. 18, October, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission.—Commonweal, v. 127, June 16, 2000. Copyright ©2000 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, v. 30, Winter, 1989; v. 31, Fall, 1989; v. 40, Winter, 1999; v. 41, Spring, 2000. Copyright © 1989, 1999, 2000 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. All reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036-1802.—The Explicator, v. 54, Fall, 1995; v. 56, Winter, 1998; v. 57, Spring, 1999. Copyright © 1995, 1998, 1999 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. All reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036-1802.—The Gay & Lesbian Review, v. 7, Spring, 2000. Copyright 2000 Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, v. 8, September, 2001; v. 9, May-June, 2002. Copyright 2001, 2001 Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. Both reproduced by permission.—Georgia Review, v. 52, Spring, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Germanic Review, v. 62, Fall, 1987 for “Landscape as Writing and Revelation in Sarah Kirsch’s ‘Death Valley’” by Charlotte Melin. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Hudson Review, v. xlvi, Autumn, 1993; v. 53, Summer, 2000. Both reproduced by permission.—Lambda Book Report, v. 8, December, 1999 for “Portrait of the Young Artist as a Survivor,” by William Reichard; v. 9, April, 2001 for “Metameringue,” by Jim Gladstone; v. 10, June-July, 2002 for an interview with Mark Doty, by Christopher Hennessy. Copyright 1999, 2001, 2002 Lambda Literary Foundation. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—London Review of Books, v. 11, September 28, 1989; v. 13, September 12, 1991; v. 14, June 11, 1992; v. 14, October 8, 1992; v. 19, February 6, 1997; v. 20, October 29, 1998; v. 21, October 14, 1999. All reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 16, 1992; January 17, 1993; October 31, 1993; April 14, 1996; September 5, 1999. Copyright, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999 Los Angeles Times. All reproduced by permission.—MELUS, v. 24, Summer, 1999. Copyright, MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Drama, v. 26, March, 1983. Copyright © 1983 University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. Reproduced by permission.—Mosaic, v. 30, September, 1997. © Mosaic 1997. Reproduced by permission—The New Criterion, v. 17, December, 1998 for “Sins and Sensibility,” by William Logan; v. 18, May, 2000 for “Period Decadence, Emotional Truths,” by Mark Steyn; v. 20, May, 2002 for “Guileless Games,” by Max Watman. Copyright © 1998, 2000, 2002 by The Foundation for Cultural Review, Inc. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—New England Review, v. 17, Winter, 1995 for “Eastward Ho!,” by David R. Slavitt.

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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 176, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Chavkin, Allan. From “Vision and Revision in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine,”in The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich. Edited by Allan Chavkin. The University of Alabama Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Fehn, Ann Clark. From Erkennen und Dueten: Essays zur Literatur und Literaturtheorie, Edgar Lohner in Memoriam. Edited by Martha Woodmansee and Walter F. W. Lohnes. Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1983. © Erich Schmidt Verlag 1983. Reproduced by permission.—Gish, Robert F. From The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich. Edited by Allan Chavkin. The University of Alabama Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Magalaner, Marvin. From American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space. Edited by Mickey Pearlman. The University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The University Press of Kentucky. Reproduced by permission.—Owens, Louis. From Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel. University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ratcliffe, Krista. From The Languages of Addiction. Edited by Jane Lilienfeld and Jeffrey Oxford. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1999. Copyright © Jane Lilienfeld and Jeffrey Oxford, eds, 1999. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Palgrave Macmillan.—Sands, Kathleen M. From Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine”: A Casebook. Edited by Hertha D. Sweet Wong. Oxford University Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Sarris, Greg. From Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts. University of California Press, 1993. © 1993 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission.—Silberman, Robert. From Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures. Edited by Gerald Vizenor. University of New Mexico Press, 1989. © 1989 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Smith, Jeanne Rosier. From Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature. University of California Press, 1997. © 1997 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission.

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Erdrich, Louise, photograph by Eric Miller. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Frayn, Michael, photograph by Brad Rickerby. © Reuters NewMedia Inc./Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Thorpe, Adam, photograph by Sophie Bassouls. © Bassouls Sophie/Corbis Sygma. Reproduced by permission.

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