Essays. Under gray flannel / Josh Lukin -- Cold War confessions and the FBI plant : the amazing lives and myths of Matt Cvetic and Herbert Philbrick / Cyndy Hendershot -- Who's been duped? Communists, kids and dangerous drawings in Entertaining comics' "Cosmic ray bomb explosion" / Tova Cooper -- Sociology as science fiction / Andrew Hoberek -- The prostitute speaks : Brenda Frazer's Troia: Mexican memoirs / Kurt Hemmer -- "A love flung out of space" : lesbians in the city in Patricia Highsmith's The price of salt / Victoria J. Hesford -- The revolting housewife : women and science fiction in the 1950s / Justine Larbalestier & Helen Merrick -- Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a train as tragedy of manners / Josh Lukin -- "If I can only get it funny!" : the postwar primitive and Chester Himes' parodic protest novel / Stephanie Brown -- "Bullies and humanists" : Richard Wright's The outsider / Holly Hutton -- Voyage from Lesbos : aggression, ambivalence, and psychoanalysis in the fifties / Julia Creet -- Velocities of change / Samuel R. Delany -- Interviews. Chandler Davis / interview by Josh Lukin -- Richard Matheson / interview by Jack O'Connell and Jim Sallis -- William Tenn / interview by Josh Lukin -- Reviews. Review of Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 / Christina Klein -- Review of White diaspora: the suburb and the twentieth-century American novel / Tracy Floreani -- The lore of the ding-a-lings : an appreciation of W.T. Lhamon Jr.'s Deliberate speed / James Morrow -- Review of Monsters, mushroom clouds, and the Cold War: American science fiction and the roots of postmodernism, 1946-1964 / Brian McHale -- Review of The battle of the sexes in science fiction / Ann Keefer -- Review of Science fiction culture / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Review of The post-utopian imagination: American culture in the long 1950s / Elayne Tobin -- 18 thoughts on Better to have loved: the life of Judith Merril / Wendy Pearson -- In memoriam : Leslie Fiedler.
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