“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Results for Literary Criticism
Articles
Reviews
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Susan Salter Reynolds on Why Read Moby Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick December 10th, 2011 “Discoveries: Nathaniel Philbrick”
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John Clute on In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood November 27th, 2011 “Margaret Atwood and the S and F Words”
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Roger Luckhurst on Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature by Gary K. Wolfe June 3rd, 2011 “Boiling Point”
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Jessica Freeman-Slade on My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by and June 8th, 2011 “Once Children”
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Walter Benn Michaels on What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren June 13th, 2011 “Black and White”
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Jacob Silverman on Fiasco by Imre Kertész September 28th, 2011 “Eternal Forgetting”
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Susan Olding on The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay by Carl H. Klaus September 23rd, 2011 “Getting Personal”
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Leslie S. Klinger on On Conan Doyle by Michael Dirda February 16th, 2012 “Highly Irregular”
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Ander Monson on The Lifespan of a Fact by Jim Fingal and John D'Agata March 20th, 2012 “The Skeptical Gaze”
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Lee Gutkind on The Lifespan of a Fact by Jim Fingal and John D'Agata March 19th, 2012 “Doing A D'Agata”
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Brian Reed on Taller When Prone and Activist Poetics by Les Murray and John Kinsella February 22nd, 2012 “One Ireland, Plus At Least Six Great Britains”
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Maggie Nelson on The Weather in Proust by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick January 13th, 2012 “Finishing Touches”
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Susan Salter Reynolds on Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley January 7th, 2012 “Discoveries: Jane Smiley”
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Erica Edwards on What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren June 13th, 2011 “The Formidable Work of the Present”
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen on What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren June 13th, 2011 “Wasness”
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Stan Persky on Eminent Outlaws by Christopher Bram May 13th, 2012 “The Love That Dared to Write Its Name”
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Susan Salter Reynolds on Wonderful Investigations by Dan Beachy-Quick June 30th, 2012 “To Read, Perchance to Dream”
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Hillary Kelly on Emily Dickinson in Love by John Evangelist Walsh July 22nd, 2012 “Master Narrative: Who Did Emily Dickinson Write Her Love Letters To?”
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Angela Serratore on Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale July 29th, 2012 “Here’s to Mrs. Robinson”
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Brian Kim Stefans on Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature by Daniel Levin Becker August 10th, 2012 “Gaming the System: On the Oulipo”
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Joshua Weiner on Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions by Charles Bernstein September 19th, 2012 “A Hazard of New Fortunes: On Bernstein's 'Attack of the Difficult Poems'”
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Mark McGurl on Gothicka by Victoria Nelson September 22nd, 2012 “Dark Times: On the 21st Century Gothic”
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Alan Williamson on Canti: Poems/A Bilingual Edition by Giacomo Leopardi October 4th, 2012 “A Song Heard on the Road: Leopardi’s Nihilistic Genius”
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Peli Grietzer on Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing by Kenneth Goldsmith and Craig Dworkin October 12th, 2012 “The Aesthetics of Sufficiency: On Conceptual Writing”
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Alexandra Socarides on The Emily Dickinson Reader by Paul Legault October 23rd, 2012 “For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her: On Paul Legault’s Emily Dickinson”
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Robert Nedelkoff on One For The Books by Joe Queenan November 9th, 2012 “Books: A Love Story”
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Phillip Maciak on Film After Film and Siegfried Kracauer’s American Writings by J. Hoberman and Siegfried Kracauer November 7th, 2012 “The Passion of the Critic: On Hoberman, Kracauer, and the Future of Film”
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Morten Høi Jensen on The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood November 17th, 2012 “The Art of the Critic: On James Wood”
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William Giraldi on Rotten Reviews Redux: A Literary Companion by Bill Henderson November 30th, 2012 “The Critic’s Credentials: On 'Rotten Reviews Redux'”
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Casey Shoop on The Deliverance of Others by David Palumbo-Liu December 12th, 2012 “Too Much Otherness?: The Ethics of Reading in the Global Age”
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David Winters on Dying for Time by Martin Hägglund February 5th, 2013 “Terror and Beauty: Martin Hägglund’s "Dying for Time"”
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Brian Kim Stefans on Weird Realism by Graham Harman April 6th, 2013 “Let’s Get Weird: On Graham Harman’s H.P. Lovecraft”
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Diana Arterian on Dying Modern by Diana Fuss April 24th, 2013 “Famous Last Words: Diana Fuss’s “Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy””
Essays
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Was Gertrude Stein a Collaborator? by Renate Stendhal December 17th, 2011 -
The Death of the Book by Ben Ehrenreich April 18th, 2011 -
Just Like a Woman by Audrey Bilger September 5th, 2011 -
Letters to the Editors by David Livingstone Smith and Jon-Christian Suggs June 18th, 2011 -
The Most Versatile of Mystics by Philip Goldberg October 6th, 2011 -
The Things We Carry by Jocelyn Heaney November 18th, 2011 -
The Natural by Marjorie Perloff November 2nd, 2011 -
The Lyrical Essay by William Dean Howells March 18th, 2012 -
What Was African American Literature? A Symposium by Erica Edwards, Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Walter Benn Michaels June 13th, 2011 -
The Exegete by Rob Latham February 24th, 2012 -
VIDEO: The Question of Nonfiction by Aimee Bender, Janet Fitch, Seth Greenland, Laila Lalami, Paul Mandelbaum and Mark Haskell Smith April 15th, 2012 -
Discoveries: Franzen, Beachy-Quick, & Baldwin by Susan Salter Reynolds June 30th, 2012 -
In Search of Lost Plots: On Viktor Shklovsky by Jonathan Foltz October 24th, 2012 -
What Would DFW Do: Maria Bustillos, Eric Been, and Mike Goetzman on "Both Flesh and Not" and All Things Foster Wallace by Eric Been, Maria Bustillos and Michael Goetzman November 25th, 2012 -
Let Us Not to Our Readers Condescend by Joe Amato and Kass Fleisher December 31st, 2012 -
"Pride & Prejudice" Forever by Audrey Bilger and Susan Celia Greenfield January 27th, 2013 -
The State of the Union of Jane Austen, Fact and Fiction by Devoney Looser January 27th, 2013
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