Caleb Smith is professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press, 2009) and The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War (Harvard University Press, 2013). His essays on contemporary culture have appeared in BOMB, Paper Monument, Yale Review, and Avidly.org. His homepage is http://calebsmith.commons.yale.edu/.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Unvicarious: Reading with Sam See
What Sam See is looking for in the art he loves is something other than escape. He is seeking forms of shelter....
American Death Cult: A Love Story
Reading Senator Tom Cotton's "Sacred Duty" against the grain, we can begin to come to terms with the erotics of American militarism....
In for Doom: Austin Reed’s “The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict”
Bashaun Brown and Caleb Smith discuss Austin Reed's recently rediscovered memoir, "The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict"....
Introducing “No Crisis”
In "No Crisis," we hope to show that the art of criticism is flourishing, rich with intellectual power and sustaining beauty, in hard times....
Poe in Hard Times: Terror of the Soul at The Morgan Library & Museum
It’s the desire to come closer to Poe, in all his precariousness, that brings us to the banker’s house, to inspect these precious things....
What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby
Wai Chee Dimock, "Better Than the Yale Club" THAT'S WHAT NICK SAYS, at the end of the party in Tom ...
