Susie Gharib

Culture on Trial from the Counterrevolution of Queen Liliuokalani to the Fraudulence of Caravaggio's "Cardsharps" Susie Gharib

This issue includes a set of academic book reviews from the Editor, Anna Faktorovich. The books reviewed were published by University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, The Burlington Press, University of Hawai'i Press, MIT Press, Edinburgh University Press, and the National Council of Teachers of English. They cover new releases in contemporary and classical art, photography, literature, herbology, and several other general interest and specialist topics. These books include curiosities such as the first edition of Queen Liliuokalani's journal and an account from an expert witness who testified at the Caravaggio's "Cardsharps" trial. Susie Gharib's article is on coverage of London in the work of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. The poetry section includes new pieces by Danny P. Barbare, Louis Gallo, Vincent Green, Lloyd A. Jacobs, Rob Luke, Martina Reisz Newberry, Simon Perchik, Bob Phillips, Robert Ronnow, Leo S. Tao, James Tyler, and Howard Winn. Covid-19 is on a lot of these creative minds, as well as the social and economic inequities that are exacerbating the impact of this pandemic. The short fiction stories are by Joel Allegretti, Jeanne Farewell, Hareendran Kallinkeel, Tom Ray and Ankur Razdan.