Select Articles Referencing Rakow’s Work

Addison, Catherine, “The Verse Novel as Genre: Contradiction or Hybrid?” University of Zululand, Vol 43, No.4, Winter 2009.

Clayton, Victoria, “The Words Come Hard, but Payoff Is Sweet.” The Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2002.

Middleton, Darren J. N., Theology After Reading, Christian Imagination and the Power of Fiction  (Baylor University Press, 2008).

Muller, Richard A., The Unaccommodated Calvin, Studies in the Foudation of a Theological Tradition, (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, Oxford University Press, 2000).

Tambour, Karl, The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England, 2007.

“The Problem and the Genius: Mary Rakow on John Felstiner’s translation of Paul Celan’s ‘Todesfuge’” February, 2012.

“Memories of Mary: Mary Rakow’s new novel and snippets” February, 2012.

 

Anthologized

Women on the Edge: Writing Los Angeles, edited by Sam Dunn and Julianne Ortale (The Toby Press, 2005).

The Memory Room Taught as Literature

UCSan Diego Extension, “Trauma and Memory in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Discover five of the most powerful, insightful—and healing—masterpieces of 20th century fiction: Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Mary Rakow’s The Memory Room, Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces, John L’Heureux’s The Shrine at Altamira, and Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker.