2001-2005

VIETNAM AND OTHER AMERICAN FANTASIES. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. x1v+256 pages. Paperback, 2001. [Spanish edition: VIETNAM Y LAS FANTASIAS NORTEAMERICANAS. Translated by Mario Iribarren. Introduction by Pablo Pozzi. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2008. 382 pages. 2nd Edition, Introduction by Eduardo Grüner. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2012. 374 pages.][Cuban edition, Introduction by Jorge Hernández Martínez. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2017. 317 pages.]

“Kicking the Denial Syndrome: Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods” in Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America’s Past (and Each Other). Ed. Mark C. Carnes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 331-343.

“The War in American Culture about the Vietnam War” (“Xung Dot Trong Nen Van Hoa My Xung Quanh Van de Chien Tranh Viet Nam”) in Tiep Can Duong Dai Van Hoa My: Contemporary Approaches to American Culture. Ed. Nguyen Lien and Jonathan Auerbach. Hanoi, 2001. 257-298.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” Discover, September 2001. 44-51.

(“The Most Important Fish in the Sea” reprinted by California Fish (http://www.californiafish.org/menahden collapse.html). September 24, 2001)

“(The Most Important Fish in the Sea” reprinted by Coastal Conservation Association Virginia, September 2001 (http://www.ccavirginia.org/cca_va_html/menhadenDiscover.html)

“Interviews on Vietnam and Other American Fantasies : KVMR (Nevada City, CA), November 15, 2000; “Democracy Now,” WBAI (New York) and Pacifica Radio Network, November 16, 2000; WORT (Madison, WI), November 20, 2000; I E Radio Network, November 21, 2000; “New York and Company,” WNYC (New York), November 22, 2000; KPFA (Berkeley), November 28, 2000; Working Assets Radio, November 30, 2000; KPFK (Los Angeles), November 14, 2000, WUSB (Stony Brook, NY), December 11, 2000; KQED (San Francisco), January 8, 2001; “Public Interest,” National Public Radio, January 12, 2001, KUCI (Irvine, CA), January 17, 2001; et al.

“The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars; Or, The Perils of Western Civilization,” Popular Culture Association Convention, Philadelphia, April 13, 2001.

Programs on Bob Kerrey and the Vietnam War: Pacifica Radio Network, April 26, 2001; Radio France International, May 2, 2001; “Talk of the Nation,” National Public Radio, May 2, 2001; “Talking History,” National Public Radio, May 28, 2001; WORT (Madison, WI), June 5, 2001; WBAI (New York), June 20, 2001.

“The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars; Or, The Perils of Western Civilization,” Popular Culture Association Convention, Philadelphia, April 13, 2001.

“Reading the Future,” Keynote Address, New Jersey Council of Teachers of English, Newark, May 4, 2001.

On Cuba-US Relations, WPKN (Hartford), June 12, 2001.

“Teaching the Vietnam War,” The William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston, June 27, 2001.

“Agent Orange,” Radio France International, July 2, 2001.

“Cluster Bomb,” Democracy Now, Pacifica Radio, October 26, 2001.

“Teaching the Vietnam War During the ‘War on Terrorism,'” American Studies Association Convention, November 11, 2001.

On Menhaden, WGBB, December 8, 2001.

(“The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget” reprinted in International Socialist Review, March-April 2002. 50-54.)

“The Science Fiction of Medicine,” in No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Gary Westfahl and George Slusser. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 9-22.

“Computers in Fiction,” Computer Sciences. Ed. Roger R. Flynn. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2002.

(Chapter on “Bartleby” from The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Melville’s Short Novels: Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002, 176-185.)

“Nuclear War Literature,” in Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Ronald Gottesman and Mauricio Mazón. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002.

“Missing in Action in the 21st Century” in Blackwell Companion to the Vietnam War. Ed. Marilyn Young and Robert Buzzanco. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, 2006. 317-332.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” reprinted in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Ed. Natalie Angier. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Fall 2002. 80-88.

(“The Most Important Fish in the Sea” reproduced in “Physical and Integrated Science,” Powerweb. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. Fall 2002.)

(“The Most Important Fish in the Sea” reproduced in “Oceanography 03/04,” Powerweb. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. Fall 2002. )

“From Vietnam to Afghanistan,” Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, February 10, 2002.

On Jack Henry Abbott, All Things Considered,” National Public Radio, February 12, 2002. Archived at www.npr.org.

“Teaching 9/11: Contexts and Texts,” Conference on September 11: One Year After, Museum of the City of New York, October 19, 2002.

“Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War,” Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 2002.

1973-2002 : Editorial Board, Editorial Consultant, Science-Fiction Studies.

“The Quiet American’s War on Terror,” The Nation. February 3, 2003. 43-44.

“We’ll Take Menhaden,” Star-Ledger, March 16, 2003. Perspective section,1 and 6.

“Can Vietnam Awaken Us Again: Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War,” Radical Teacher, 66 (Spring 2003). 28-31.

(“From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America’s Wars” reprinted in The Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts, Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Louise Smith, and Ning Yu. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003. 514-530.)

(“The Most Important Fish in the Sea” reprinted in Outlooks: Readings for Environmental Literacy, 2nd ed. Ed. Michael McKinney. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2004. 19-23.)

“Under Attack for 150 Years,” Clarion, Summer 2003, 10.

“`Peace Is Our Profession’: The Bombers Take Over,” in The Airplane and American Culture. Ed. Dominick A. Pisano. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 333-356.

On War and Historical Memory, WUSB (Stony Brook, NY), January 13, 2003.

“Teaching in a Time of War Fever,” Panel, Socialist Scholars Conference, March 15, 2003.

“Vietnam Again,” Talkback, WBAI, April 23, 2003.

“Vietnam and Iraq,” Pastors for Peace/IFCO, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, April 24, 2003.

“Teaching American Literature Post 9/11,” Roundtable, American Literature Association, May 22, 2003.

Commentator, “The Cold War and American Memory,” American Studies Association Convention, October 16, 2003.

Keynote address, American Studies Association Secondary Educators’ Luncheon, October 18, 2003.

“War Is Peace: Washington’s Final Science Fiction Solution,” Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature Discussion Group, Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 2003.

“Bioterror Comes Home,” Literature and Science Division, Modern Language Association Convention, December 30, 2003.

(“The Most Important Fish in the Sea” reprinted in Outlooks: Readings for Environmental Literacy, 2nd ed. Ed. Michael McKinney. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2004. 19-23.)

“Under Attack for 150 Years,” Clarion, Summer 2003, 10.

“`Peace Is Our Profession’: The Bombers Take Over,” in The Airplane and American Culture. Ed. Dominick A. Pisano. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 333-356.

“Menhaden: Our Most Precious Fish,” The Sportsman’s Magazine, February 2004, 24, 49. Reprinted in Rhode Island Saltwalter Anglers Association Newsletter, April 2004, 1, 37-39.

“Computers in Fiction” in Concise Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Ed. Edwin Reilly. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. 322-325.

(“Animal Farm Unbound Or, What the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Reveals about American Literature” reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 141 [NCLC-141]. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2004.)

(“From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America’s Wars” reprinted in The Brief Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts, Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Louise Smith, and Ning Yu. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004. 384-400.)

“Billy Budd and Capital Punishment,” San Francisco Opera 2004/2005 Yearbook. San Francisco, 2004. 32-35.

“Billy Budd, War, Empire, and Music,” Billy Budd Program, San Francisco Opera 2004-2005 Season. San Francisco, 2004. xi-xii.

“Ralph Nader and the Progressive Agenda,” TruthOut.org, October 17, 2004. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101704F.shtml

“The American Prison and the Normalization of Torture” in Torture, American Style, ed. Margaret Power. November 28, 2004. http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/resources/torture/brucefranklin.html

“War is Peace: Washington’s Final Science Fiction Solution,” Fictions (Rome) III (2004), 13-20.

Review of The Final Frontier: America, Science, and Terror by Dominick Jenkins, Science & Society, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Winter 2004-2005), 520-522.

“When Did the Vietnam War Begin?”, American Historical Association, January 10, 2004.

“The Hidden History of the Antiwar Movement,” New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Center, March 27, 2004.

“The Antiwar Movement We Are Not Supposed to Know About,” New School University, March 30, 2004.

“When Did the Vietnam War Begin? And What Difference Does It Make?” Yeshiva University, April 22, 2004.

“Kerry and Vietnam,” WRT (Madison, WI), September 14, 2004.

“Iraq and Vietnam,” West Chester University (PA), October 12, 2004.

“History of the Vietnam War,” Montclair Adult School, October 19, 2004.

“History of the Iraq War,” Kean University, October 21, 2004.

“Billy Budd and Capital Punishment,” San Francisco Opera 2004/2005 Yearbook. San Francisco, 2004. 32-35.

“Billy Budd, War, Empire, and Music,” Billy Budd Program, San Francisco Opera 2004-2005 Season. San Francisco, 2004. xi-xii.

“Ralph Nader and the Progressive Agenda,” TruthOut.org, October 17, 2004. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101704F.shtml

“The American Prison and the Normalization of Torture” in Torture, American Style, ed. Margaret Power. November 28, 2004. http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/resources/torture/brucefranklin.html

“War is Peace: Washington’s Final Science Fiction Solution,” Fictions (Rome) III (2004), 13-20.

Review of The Final Frontier: America, Science, and Terror by Dominick Jenkins, Science & Society, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Winter 2004-2005), 520-522.

Review of Striper Wars: An American Fish Story by Dick Russell, American Scientist, September-October 2005, 461-462. http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/45920

(“Kicking the Denial Syndrome: Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods” reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 211, 2005.)

“The World in a Prison: Beethoven’s Fidelio,” Fidelio Program, San Francisco Opera 2005-2006 Season. San Francisco, 2005. xvi-xviii.

“On the 30th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War,” Radio France International, April 30, 2005.

“‘Vietnam’ in the New American Century,” The British Academy, London, May 14, 2005.

“The Conservative Labyrinth in Recent US History” (Commentator), American Studies Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, November 6, 2005.

“On Agent Orange and Torture,” WBAI (NYC), November 14, 2005.