BOOKS AND MEDIA: Briefly Noted JOURNALS _American Literary Realism: Special Issue on Mark Twain_. Guest editor, Michael J. Kiskis. Volume 41, No. 3, Spring 2009. E-ISSN: 1940-5103. Print ISSN: 0002-9823. $12.00 (U.S.); $15.00 (Non-U.S.). This issue contains five essays by noted Mark Twain scholars: "The voice of Her Laughter: Mark Twain's Tragic Feminism" by Ann M. Ryan; "The Fluid Identity of 'Petrified Man'" by Kerry Driscoll; "'The Trouble Begins at Eight': Mark Twain, the San Francisco Minstrels, and the Unsettling Legacy of Blackface Minstrelsy" by Sharon D. McCoy; "Transcendental Twain: A New Reading of 'What Is Man?'" by Jennifer Gurley; and "'It Was a Pretty High Title': Kantian Ethics in _A Connecticut Yankee_" by Jeffrey W. Miller. Mark Woodhouse also contributes a book review of Forrest G. Robinson's _The Author-Cat_. This journal is available online through Project Muse from many school libraries at this website: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_realism/toc/alr.41.3.html Single issues are available from the University of Illinois Press. Their contact information is available at this website: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/alr.html