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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2024

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents:

  Essay's by Olivia Sweet, Madison Newman, Elizabeth white, Isaac Jones, Nevaeh Ellis, Abby Van Voorhis, and Gabe Whitnack.

  Book Reviews by Cami Borders, Ayan Abdi, Isaac Jones, Nevaeh Ellis, Claudia Smallwood, Dane Whip, Olivia Sweet, Emily Rogers, Julia Tenbusch, Mitzi Cuaxico, Kate Hedrick, Marygrace Gorensek, Ellyse Gallagher, and Lauren Mlynarek

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2022

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editors' Introduction, Editorial Board Members, Art in Dire Times, From Dust to Destruction, "Get Up, Peter; The Revolution's Calling:" Revolutions, Sexuality, Feminism, and LIFE Magazine in 1968, Having It All: Ladies Home Journal and Post-feminism in the Early 1990s, Mythic England and the Deranged Empire: Using Wide Sargasso Sea to Understand the Moral Illness of the Colonial Agent, On the Perversion and Commodification of Blackness: Spike Lee's Bamboozled, You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Media Messages of Women's Liberation, An Interview with Dr. Amy Sheeran, Book Reviews: "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy," "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing," "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain," "Complaint!" "Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America," "Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot," "Hour of the Witch," "Klara and the Sun," "Negative Space," "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," "The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture," "The Midnight Library," "The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century," "The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames," "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo," "Thick: And Other Essays," "What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance," "When No One is Watching," "Where the Crawdads Sing," "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death"

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2021

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editors' Introduction, Editorial Board Members, COVID-19 as the Collapse of Capitalism: A Socio-Political Marxist Analysis of the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Future, Going Out in Style: How Stylistics Can Disrupt the Problematic Literary Canon, Ideal Kingship: How Christianity Was Seen as an Important Instrument to Authoritarian Rule in the Frankish Empire, Masochism and Sinthomsexuality: Caleb and Ava's Relationship in Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Notes on Melodrama: Women, Madness, and the Oppression of the Patriarchy, The Differing Moralities of the Renaissance Play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus and the Medieval Morality Play Everyman, The Dissolute Punished: An Overview of Mozart's Don Giovanni, K. 527, The Use of Narrative in the Art of Faith Ringgold, T.S. Eliot: Reinventing the Modernist Tradition, COVID-19 Lockdowns Disrupt Conversation, The Vulnerability of Nurses, Where Resources Should Go, "Racial Weathering" and Other Flaws in the Utilitarian Approach to Economic Lockdown, Interview with Dr. Alexander Rocklin, Interview with Dr. Scott Muir, Book Review: Cherry, Book Review: Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities, Book Review: Hurricane Season, Book Review: Latitudes of Longing, Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere, Book Review: Marvelous Pigness of Pigs, Book Review: Night Film, Book Review: Temporary, Book Review: The Book of Longings, Book Review: The Lady's Handbook for her Mysterious Illness, Book Review: The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, Book Review: There There, Book Review: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Book Review: 101 Essays That Will Change the Way you Think

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2020

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editors' Introduction, Editorial Board Members, How the Harlem Hellfighters Would be Remembered as America's Most Celebrated African American Military Unit, War Requiem, The Virtues of Scrutiny and Tenacity, Should We Shorten Grieving, The Effects of Baseball During the Fifty-Year Japanese Occupation of Taiwan, Parasitic Poverty, A View of American Society in 1967 and 1968 Through Ladies Home Journal, Sex and the Early Novel, The Closet of a Drag Queen, Hubble's University, Educated, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, Sing Unburied Sing, Children of Blood and Bone, Living a Feminist Life, The Crowded Hour Theodore Roosevelt The Rough Riders and the Dawn of the American Century, Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory, The Silent Patient, The Sympathizer

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2019

  Otterbein Aegis

  Editor's Introduction, Book Reviews and Essays including: To Keep or Not to Keep by Lindsay Lisanti, Fantastic Beasts and How to Value them by Casey Hall, Sex, Youth, and the Pill b Hannah Schneider, How Historiography is Crucial in Comprehending the Leading Circumstances of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 by Josh Wolf, Magic is no Cure by Casey Hall, The Ever-Evolving Relationship of the Supreme Court, Women and Homosexuals by Amanda Reed, Vietnam: A Love Story by Abigail Fahmi, Gender and Sex in 1920' America by Raven Manygoats.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2018

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editor's Intro, Where is the justice? By Haley Kirst, Feminist sects of thought on infertility by Amanda Reed, Tamara De Lempicka's Depiction of the modern woman by Catherine Gallagher, Achieving Masculinity by Casey Hall, Human Souls Embodiment within social emotions by Kaileigh Strobel, Gender Justice and the Scouts by Madison Moore, In Game of Thrones, You win or you die by Saige Picone, We're all pretty bizarre by Kendall Gribble, Violence in Contemporary Visual Art by Catherine Gallagher, W.A. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major by Dominica Bean, How historical consciousness is crucial to understanding the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 by Josh Wolf. Interview with Piper Kerman and 9 Book Reviews

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2017

  Otterbein Aegis

  As a journal designed to catalyze a deeper critical appreciation of the humanities at Otterbein University, Aegis publishes undergraduate scholarly essays and book reviews that advance the presence and values of the humanities on campus and beyond. Aegis is published annually each spring semester.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2016

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editor's Introduction; Essays including: How Racism Shaped Baltimore-Amanda Daniel, Shostakovich: Speaking Silenced Stories - Lane Champa, The Ladies' Home Journal, 1966-1967, -Shannon Back, Reading the Age of Innocence in the Age of Independence -Madison Clouse, The Most Frightening Criminals: A Faminist Critique of Modern Racism Through Use of Contemporary and Historic Perceptions of New Orleans Voodoo - Elizabeth Casto, Textual Chemistry: Why Texting in Not the End of the English Language as We Know It - Alina Carpenter, and Jane Eyre: An Ancestor Heroine for Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Literature - Emmanuela Bean. Book Reviews Include: The Crane Wife - Claire Lober, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep - Bethany Blinsky, NeuroTrives: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity - Viola Constable, The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles - Emmanuela Bean, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - Lydia Crannell, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth - Emma van Hasselt, Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders, CowBoys, Men and Competing Masculinities on the Texas Frontier - Carrie Coisman.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2015

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with David Johnson, Associate Professor of History, University of South Florida; Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie; Interview with George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University; Essays: In Swift’s Shadow: An Essay Examining the Influence of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels on Voltaire’s Candide—Lydia Crannell; Children as Perpetrators of the Colonial Project—Lauren Edmonds; Jokes That Express Racist Beliefs: David Benatar’s Account of Harm in Racist Beliefs and the Expression of Those Beliefs Through Humor—Samuel Lawless; Among The Living Dead: The Zombie Narrative in a Post-9/11 Era—Zoë Princehorn; I’m a Princess Cut From Marble: Gender in the Renaissance—Emma van Hessalt; Book Reviews: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction—Taylor Bailey; I Wear the Black Hat—Bethany Blinsky; California—Byron Brenneman; Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights by Carrie Coisman; Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies—Kevin Gebura; Leaving the Sea—Gretchen Heisler; American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath—Katy Major; Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West—Carly Marburger; Life After Life—Meghan MacMillan; The Shelf: Adventures in Extreme Reading—Rachel Scherzer; Authentic Being—Nicole Starling; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2014

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Featured Faculty Interview with Dr. Geoffrey Barstow, Assistant Professor of Religion, Otterbein University; Essays: The Nag Hammadi Library—Heresy or Homage to the Christ?—Brianne Buletko; “I Will Give Them an Everlasting Name”: Bearing Witness through Survivor Literature—Meghan Crawford; Symbolism and Cultural Meaning in Karel Husa’s Music for Prague 1968—Paul Faulkner; Still on the Road: A Comparison of Eighteenth Century North American Travel Writing and Kerouac’s On the Road—Beth Gier; Essayist Examination: Lauren Slater—Rachel Scherzer; Freedom to Die: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Tolsoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych—Rebecca Whitney; Book Reviews: The Bonobo and the Athiest by Frans de Waal—Taylor Bailey; Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman—Samantha Birri; Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis—Meghan Crawford; Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum—Kevin Gebura; Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon—Beth Gier; Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies by Brian Doyle—Megan Gray; The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman—Gretchen Heisler; Murals of New York City by Glenn Palmer-Smith—Brie Lovensheimer; Night Film by Marisha Pessl—Katy Major; Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays by Eula Biss—Carly Marburger; And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini—Rachel Scherzer; Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain—Karly Smith; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2013

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Terry Castle; Interview with Dr. Karen Stohr; Essays: Olivier Messiaen and the Quartet for the End of Time—Jody Sjogren; No Ultimatums Necessary: Defending Diverse Poetry—Beth Gier; Are Negative Duties Enough? Basic Goods Deficits and the Institutional Approach to Human Rights—Beth Dwyer; Israel contra Becker: Rescuing the Enlightenment?—Emmy Hammond; Book Reviews: Ruins—Zach Alexander; Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace—Toshia Fries; Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times—Beth Dwyer; Mortality—Emmy Hammond; Gone Girl—Whitney Reed; Ten Thousand Saints—Beth Gier; The Casual Vacancy—Lacy O’Lalde; The London Train—Megan Gray; That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back—Meghan Crawford; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2012

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Debra Moddelmog; Interview with Dr. Angela Smith; Essays: Country and Humanity: The Tensions of Universal Benevolence in Richard Price’s Discourse – Emmy Hammond; From Dominance to Companionship: Animals in Behn and Defoe – Hannah Biggs; Cultural Influence and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring – Andrea Marie Keil; A Crooked Tree: The Problem of Nature vs. Nurture in Wuthering Heights – Becky Woodruff; Influences on Paul Hindemith’s Sonata for Trumpet and Piano – Samuel Kolis; A Rebirth of the Siren – Whitney Reed; Aldous and Aristotle: The Ethics of Brave New World – Chris Thayer; Trauma at Tara: The Different Faces of Post-War; Trauma in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind and Why They Still Matter – Brooklyn Reymann; Book Reviews: A Revolution of the Mind – Emmy Hammond; A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life – Hannah Biggs; Hollywood Incoherent – Lacy O’Lalde; “I Am Providence”: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft – Chris Thayer; Let the Great World Spin – Jacqlyn Schott; Not for Profit – Vinny Sanfillipo; The Art of Fielding – Justin McAtee; The Marriage Plot – Whitney Reed; The Pale King – Ellie Detrich; The Submission – Sara McElroy; What’s That Pig Outdoors? A Memoir of Deafness – Niki Calvaruso; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2011

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Stephen T. Asma; Essays: ‘Let Other Pens Dwell On Guilt And Misery’: Mansfield Park and Social Commentary – Chris Thayer; Sham Populations: The Farce of the Revolutionary in Conrad’s The Secret Agent and Greene’s The Comedians – Boris Hinderer; Charles Ives’s Variations on “America”: An American Original – Zachary D. Garster; Re-centering Heart of Darkness – Justin McAtee; The Concentration Camps of Waiting for Godot – Hannah Biggs; The Price of Privilege: How Freedom Disintegrates Characters and Narrative in Con­rad and Didion – Christine Horvath; Shakespeare’s Shylock: The Enthusiastic Fanatic – Hannah Biggs; An Implicit Ethics – Zach Hopper; Book Reviews: At Home: A Short History of Private Life – Hannah Biggs; By Nightfall – Christine Horvath; Everyman – Justin McAtee; Great House – Becky Woodruff; Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays – Vianca Yohn; August: Osage County – Jonna Stewart; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Boris Hinderer; The Help – Chelsea Ferrin; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2010

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. William Ian Miller; Articles: “My Body is a Pebble”: Death Drive, Repression, and Freeing the Self in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel – Stephanie Freas; China’s Quest for Natural Resources: The Environmental Impact on Africa – Will Ferrall; Soviet, Japanese, and American Relations with China, 1949-1972: China’s Quest for Power through Foreign Policy – Brianna Joslyn; Creative Integrity Despite Oppression: Soviet Realism and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 – Ruthann Elder; Uncovering the Politics of Hierarchy in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things – Vicki Mullins; Ethnocentrism and Prejudice in Politics: Deconstructing the Myth of the Shi’a Crescent – Kirsten Peninger; A Plagued Nation: A Psychoanalytic and Thematic Exploration of Charles Burns’ Black Hole – Ashley Butler; The Nazi Ideology of German Womanhood – Eryn Kane; A Critique of Lafont’s Response to the Cognitive Dishonesty Objection – Larsa Ramsini; Book Reviews: When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present – Eryn Kane; Armageddon in Retrospect – JT Hillier; Atmospheric Disturbances – Boris Hinderer; Wetlands – Will Ferrall; The Forever War – Justin McAtee; The Other – Jennifer Rish; Her Fearful Symmetry – Danielle Wood; Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down – Christine Horvath; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jonna Stewart; One Teacher in Ten: LGBT Educators Share Their Stories – Vianca Yohn; The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession – Stephanie Freas; What it Is-Ashley Butler; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2009

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Rita Raley; Articles: Gibson Got It Wrong, South Park Got It Right: How one animated episode effectively critiques The Passion of the Christ—Sarah Martindell; Wuthering Heights: A Psychoanalytical and Masculine Study—Meghan (Johnson) Boyd; Perseverance through Adversity: The Importance of Unification—Jessica Sheffer; Liquid Influences—Whitney Prose; Revisiting van Inwagen, Lewis, and the Consequence Argument—Larsa Ramsini; Two Worlds Combined: Modernism and Classicism in Stravinsky’s Apollo—Bonnie Shore; Book Reviews: Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl—Will Ferrall; Suite Française—Stephanie Freas; The White Tiger—Zachary Hopper; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Christine Horvath; A Mercy—Jessica Ramey; The Wordy Shipmates—Larsa Ramsini; The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives—Jennifer Scarbrough; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2008

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Robert Miklitsch; Articles: A New Type of Queen: The Emergence of Beauty Pageants in America, 1880-1921 – Randi Hopkins; “What have we women to do with these matters?”: Women and Femininity in Pre-Revolutionary America, 1763-1775 – Megan Hatfield; Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! – Whitney Prose; Kenny and Wee on the Necessity of ‘Liberty of Indifference’ in Descartes’ Theory of Judgment – Larsa Ramsini; Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis – Adam Berner; Pope Pius XII: His Role with the Vatican in WWII – Kevin Crafton; The Genocide of the Herero Set the Tone for the Holocaust – Gabrielle Gagnon; Exploring Thomas Hardy’s Grief Through His Poetry – Stacie Walulik; Saint Manuel the Unhappy, Deceiver – Zachary Hopper; Frankenstein: Gothic Novel, Feminist Manifesto, and Guide to Parenting – Zachary Hopper; Beowulf and Gawain: Different Stories, Similar Endings – Zachary Hopper; Book Reviews: Nobrow - Will Ferrall; A Thousand Splendid Suns - Ashley Fox; Blindness - Zachary Hopper; Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams - Meghan Johnson; Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - Laura Muellner; The Zookeeper’s Wife - Abby Reschke; The World Without Us - Jennifer Scarbrough; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2007

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Henry Abelove; Articles: Facebook.com: Preparing Future Leaders with Ignorance—Colleen Deel; Jesus: Apocalyptic Mesiah or Counter Apocalyptic Social Prophet? An Alternate View of Jesus and Why the Church is Called to Serve the Oppressed—Nick Kiger; The Rise of Marxist Thought in Twentieth Century Vietnam—Halle Neiderman; Resurrecting Judith: Edith Summers Kelly, Weeds, and the Politics of Gender— Christi Amato; Social Movements and the Politics of Place: Transnational and Local Change—Sarah Prindle; The Drama and the Comedy of the Commons: Rethinking “The Tragedy of the Commons”—Sarah Prindle; The Material Language of Beuys and Antoni - Emily Starr; Is Trope Theory Viable?—Jason Thomas Craig; The Origins of Republican Womanhood—Shannon Bauchert; Leonard Bernstein: I Hate Music! A Cycle of Five Kid Songs and its Cultural Con­text—Danielle Hickey; Discovering Knoxville: A Biography, Analysis, and Study of Cultural Context— Alison Brooks; Book Reviews: America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy—Cassi Smith; Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South—Me­gan Hatfield; The Last American Man—Meghan Johnson; March—Larsa Ramsini; Memories of My Melancholy Whores—Shannon Bauchert; The Road—Jason Thomas Craig; The World is Flat—Jennifer Scarbrough; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2006

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Alan Lightman: At the Intersection of the Sciences and Humanities; Articles: Two Essays on Socrates: An Examination of Richard Kraut’s Liberalization of Socrates’ Political Philosophy —J. T. Craig; Would King Drink the Hemlock?: Socrates’ Views on King — Larsa Ramsini; The Not-So “Invisible Hand”: America’s Role in Haiti’s Endemic Poverty — Christina Amato; Philosophizing Disgrace: Anatomy and Analysis of Dylan’s “Hard Rain” — Adam Cottrel; A Priest of the Portrait as a Young Man: The Path to Stephen Dedalus’s Artistic Baptism — Adam Cottrel; The Moral Dilemma of Atomic Warfare — Edward Gunn; Jaingxi Elementary School Explosion: A Look at Human Rights Abuse in China — Rhonda Maynard; A Woman’s Religion: How Ann Lee Broke Through the Patriarchy — Jen Roberts; Art of Revolution — Jen Wall; Hirohito: Dunce or Duplicitous Leader? — Michelle Yost; Book Reviews: The Body of Brooklyn — Jennifer Roberts; The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order — Zach Reat; Collapse — Cassi Smith; Teacher Man — Christina Amato; China Inc. — J. T. Craig; In Brief; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2005

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Sherrie Inness: New Research, Unexpected Sources; Articles: Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence: Klimt’s Contemplation of Human Existence — Kari Benge; The Dissolution of the White-Indian Dichotomy: The Development of Empathy as Historical Reconstruction — Jason Carney; Antonio, Mercantilism, and the Other: The Failed Project of Christian Universalism in The Merchant of Venice. — Ashar Foley; Harold and Maude: Transcending the Fundamental Fantasy — Amanda Knapp; “Justice and realism and really looking”: The Gaze in Iris Murdoch’s The Nice and the Good — Teresa Moore; An Examination of Courtship and Dating from 1900 through the 1950s — Kari Parker; From Another Time and Place: Oral Testimony and the Holocaust — Zach Reat; Late Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Clubs: An Education for Evolving Citizens — Jennifer Roberts; Women’s Agency as Represented in Various Works of Medieval Literature —Amber Robertson; Communism and Communal History: The Death and Rebirth of Vietnamese Peasants — Michelle Yost; Book Reviews: Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory (eds. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack) — Ashar Foley; Florida by Christine Schutt — Amanda Hinds; The Desert Pilgrim by Mary Swander — Amanda Knapp; In Brief; Contributors, etc.

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  Otterbein Aegis Spring 2004

  Otterbein Aegis

  Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Richard Leppert: On the Importance of the Humanities; Articles: Stirring the Great and Noble Horse of Athenian Democracy: The Elenchus as a Preserver of Athenian Law —Jason Carney; Le héros nietzschéen dans Le Cid? — Ashar Foley; Exploring the Tapestry: Oedipa’s Embrace of the Journey in The Crying of Lot 49 —Teresa Moore; “To Any Dead Officer”: A Study of the War Poetry of Siegfried Sassoon —Nathan Weller; Book Reviews: On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life by Adam Phillips —Ashar Foley; For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propoganda for the German Reformation by Robert W. Scribner —Katherine Helgeson; Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution by Steven Ozment —Jason McKinley; In Brief; Contributors, etc.