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Reconstructing Rural Discourse, Bailey Tulloch
Reconstructing Rural Discourse, Bailey Tulloch
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Where the Crawdads Sing. By Delia Owens.
Doors To Safety: Exit West, Refugee Resettlement, And The Right To Asylum, Betsy L. Fisher
Doors To Safety: Exit West, Refugee Resettlement, And The Right To Asylum, Betsy L. Fisher
Michigan Law Review
Review of Mohsin Hamid's Exit West.
A Native Vision Of Justice, Carole Goldberg
A Native Vision Of Justice, Carole Goldberg
Michigan Law Review
Although largely unheralded in its time, D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded has become a classic of Native American literature. When the University of New Mexico Press reissued the book in 1978, a year after McNickle's death, the director of Chicago's Newberry Library, Lawrence W. Towner, predicted (correctly) that it would "reach a far wider audience." Within The Surrounded are early stirrings of a literary movement that took flight several decades after the novel's first publication in the writings of N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor, among others. All of these Native American authors share …
The Great American Tax Novel, Lawrence Zelenak
The Great American Tax Novel, Lawrence Zelenak
Michigan Law Review
David Foster Wallace-author of the celebrated novel Infinite Jest and among the most acclaimed American fiction writers of his generation-killed himself in 2008 at the age of forty-six. He left in his office hundreds of pages of The Pale King, an unfinished novel set in the fictional Peoria, Illinois regional examination center ("REC") of the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS" or "the Service") in 1985. Although many chapters of the novel were seemingly complete, Wallace left no indication (other than what could be gleaned from the chapters themselves) of the order of the chapters (pp. vi-vii). Michael Pietsch, who had served …
Young Associates In Trouble, William D. Henderson, David Zaring
Young Associates In Trouble, William D. Henderson, David Zaring
Michigan Law Review
Large law firms have reputations as being tough places to work, and the larger the firm, the tougher the firm. Yet, notwithstanding the grueling hours and the shrinking prospects of partnership, these firms perennially attract a large proportion of the nation's top law school graduates. These young lawyers could go anywhere but choose to work at large firms. Why do they do so if law firms are as inhospitable as their reputations suggest? Two recent novels about the lives of young associates in large, prestigious law firms suggest that such a rational calculation misapprehends the costs. Law professor Kermit Roosevelt's …
Fictionalizing Harassment—Disclosing The Truth, Maria L. Ontiveros
Fictionalizing Harassment—Disclosing The Truth, Maria L. Ontiveros
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Disclosure by Michael Crichton, and Bearing Witness: Sexual Harassment and Beyond—Everywoman's Story by Celia Morris
The Adventures Of Eric Blair, George P. Fletcher
The Adventures Of Eric Blair, George P. Fletcher
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law by Norval Morris
The Failure Of The Word: The Protagonist As Lawyer In Modern Fiction, Nancy T. Hammar
The Failure Of The Word: The Protagonist As Lawyer In Modern Fiction, Nancy T. Hammar
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Failure of the Word: The Protagonist as Lawyer in Modern Fiction by Richard H. Weisberg
Curiae: Law In Action. An Anthology Of The Law In Literature, Michigan Law Review
Curiae: Law In Action. An Anthology Of The Law In Literature, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of LAW IN ACTION. AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE LAW IN LITERATURE. Edited by Amicus Curiae. Introduction by Roscoe Pound.