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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 163, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

African American Review, v. xxix, Spring, 1995 for “‘Leavin’ a Mark on the Wor(l)d’: Marksmen and Marked Men in ‘Middle Passage,’” by S. X. Goudie./v. xxx, Winter, 1996 for “An Interview with Charles Johnson,” by Charles Johnson and Michael Boccia./v. xxx, Winter, 1996 for “Passages from the Middle: Coloniality and Postcoloniality in Charles Johnson’s ‘Middle Passage,’” by Brian Fagel. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—America, v. 149, 1983; v. 154, 1986; v. 160, April 1, 1989. Reproduced by permission. www.americamagazine.org.—American Scientist, v. 87, May/June, 1999 for “The Holes in Gould’s Semipermeable Membrane between Science and Religion,” by Ursula Goodenough. Reproduced by permission of the author./v. 76, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—American Spectator, v. 22, January, 1989; v. 24, August, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Asian Affairs, v. 26, October, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 7, 2000. Reproduced by permission. Conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.—Black American Literature, v. xxv, Winter, 1991 for “Something to Serve: Constructs of the Feminine in Charles Johnson’s ‘Oxherding Tale’,” by Jennifer Hayward. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Booklist, v. 91, July, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Callaloo, v. xxii 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Chicago Tribune Books, March 3, 1996 for “Evolutionary Ideas,” by Carolyn Alessio. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Christian Century,

v. 74, 1982; June 2, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, July 27, 1994; v. 91, 1999. Copyright © 1982, 1987, 1994, 1999 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission./v. 79, September 8, 1987 for a review of Where Nights Are Longest, by Gail Pool. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Chronicles of Higher Education, v. xliii, 1996. Copyright 8 1996, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Reproduced by permission.—College English, v. 59, November, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Reproduced by permission.—Commentary, v. 107, 1999 for a review of Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life, by George Weigel Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Commonweal, v. cxvii, 1991; May 20, 1994; v. cxxvi, 1999. Copyright © 1991, 1994, 1999 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Contemporary Literature, v. 34, Summer, 1993. Reproduced by permission.— Contemporary Review, v. 260, February, 1992; v. 266, June, 1995; January, 2000. Reproduced by the permission of Contemporary Review Ltd.—Contemporary Sociology, v. 8, January, 1979 for “The Evolution of Evolution,” by Thomas F. Gieryn. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Financial Times, September 26, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Free Inquiry, v. 19, Fall, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Guardian, October 9, 1999 for “A Thaw in the Gulag: Where Has the KGB Gone,” by Ian Thomson./September 23, 2000 for “Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush: A Life in Writing,” by Colin Thubron with Nicholas Wroe. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—HOTWIRE: The Journal of Women’s Music and Culture, v. 10, January, 1984. Reproduced by permission.—Independent, October 2, 1999 for “Return to the Wild East,” by Guy Mannes-Abbott. Reproduced by permission.—Independent On Sunday, October 10, 1999 for Interview “In search of lone comforts,” by Colin Thubron./October 24, 1999 for “Where Time Goes in Circles,” by Matthew Reisz. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Asian Studies, v. 48, May, 1989. Reproduced by permission of Association for Asian Studies, Inc.—Journal of Popular Culture, v. 27, Spring, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Kirkus Reviews, v. 70, August 15, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, v. 9, October 1, 1987; v. 11, September 28, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, 1983; October 6, 1985; October 29, 1989; June 24, 1990; September 1, 1991; May 10, 1992; October 20, 1996; June 6, 1999; October 31, 1999. Copyright © 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1999 Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—Mother Jones, v. 22, 1997. Reproduced by permission.— National Review, v. 51, December 20, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—New Criterion, v. 18, June, 2000 for a review of In Siberia, by Ben Downing. Reproduced by permission of the author.—New England Review, v. xix, Spring, 1998 for “A Conversation with Charles Johnson,” by Charles Johnson with William R. Nash. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The New Leader, v. lxxiv, 1991; June 6-20, 1994; November-December, 2001. © 1994, 2001 by The American

Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The New Republic, v. 187, 1981, August 1320, 1984; v. 202, 1990; June 19, 1995; May 17, 1999. © 1990, 1984, 1995, 1999 The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Scientist, v. 130, 1991; v. 152, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman, v. 106, October 21, 1983; February 17, 1984; v. 125, 1996; v. 127, 1998; March 19, 1999; v. 130, 2001; v. 131, June 10, 2002; v. 131, July 29, 2002. © 1983, 1984, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman and Society, v. 2, October 27, 1989; v. 4, April 19, 1991; v. 120, October 18, 1991; v. 237, 1993; v. 7, August 19, 1994; v. 9, May 17, 1996. © 1989, 1991, 1994, 1996 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, v. xxv, 1978; v. xxviii, 1981; v. xxxiv, 1987 v. 36, March 16, 1989; v. xxxviii, January 17, 1991; v. xxxix, 1992; v. xliii, 1996. Copyright © 1978, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, by NYREV. Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Observer, September, 1996. Copyright © by Anthony Quinn. Reproduced by permission.—Public Interest, v. 127, Spring, 1997 for “Mismeasure of Man,” by Stephen

M. Barr. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Publishers Weekly, v. 236, 1989; v. 217, February 28, 2000; v. 248, May 21, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Quadrant, v. 44, April, 2000 for “Stephen Jay Gould on Science and Religion,” by Russell Blackford. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Quarterly Review of Biology, v. 75, 2000 for “Three Biologists and Religion,” by Richard A. Watson. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Representations, Spring, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by the Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission. www.ucpress.edu—San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Science & Society,

v. 55, Summer, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Scientiﬁc American, v. 273, August, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Seattle Times, March 25, 2001 for “Fiction about Slavery Finds Humanity amid the Injustice,” by Judith Lightfoot. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Skeptic, v. 8, Spring, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Spectator, v. 252, July 7, 1984; v. 263, September 16, 1989; v. 263, November 11, 1989; v. 266, April 13, 1991; v. 273, July 16, 1994; v. 273, September 24, 1994; v. 276, April 20, 1996; v. 277, July 20, 1996; v. 277, September 21, 1996; v. 278, April 5, 1997; v. 279, November 15, 1997; v. 281, 1998; v. 283, October 9, 1999; v. 288, May 18, 2002; v. 289, July 13, 2002. © 1984, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Studies in American Fiction, v. xix, Autumn, 1991; v. xxv, Spring, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Telos, v. 25, Summer, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Third World Quarterly, v. 12, 1990-91. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, September 8, 1989; September 6, 1991; December 13, 1991; September 3, 1993; September 30, 1994; October 21, 1994; September 20, 1996; 1998; 2000. Reproduced by permission.—TriQuarterly, v. 107-8, Winter-Summer, 2000 for “A Conversation with Charles Johnson,” by Rob Trucks. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Washington Post Book World, v. 23, May 16, 1993 for “The Quick and the Dead,” by Richard Lipez./v. 24, April 17, 1994 for “Kinsey After Dark,” by Maureen Corrigan./v. 25, September 17, 1995 for “Mysteries,” by Richard Lipez./v. 59, November 1997 for “Charles Johnson’s ‘Middle Passage’ as Historiographic Metaﬁction,” by Barbara Z. Thaden. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 163, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Chrstianson, Scott. From Feminism in Women’s Detective Fiction. University of Toronto Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by University of Toronto Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rabinowitz, Peter J. From Famous Last Words: Ganges in Gender and Narrative Closure. The University Press of Virginia, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by The University Press of Virginia. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Reddy, Maureen T. From The Cunning Craft. Western Illinois University, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Western Illinois University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Walton, Priscilla L. From Women Times Three: Writers, Detectives, Readers. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Bowling Green State University Popular Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN CLC, VOLUME 163, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Gould, Stephen Jay, photograph. © Wally McNamee/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Grafton, Sue, photograph. AP/ Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Johnson, Charles Richard, photograph by Mario Suriani. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Thubron, Colin, photograph by Adam Nadel. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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