Colin Dayan

Articles

• “Israel Potter”; or, the Excrescence

  On Melville’s neglected “epic of the piecemeal.”

  Colin DayanDec 19, 2017

  • Fiction

  • Literary Criticism

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  How to Remember My Mother

  Colin DayanAug 21, 2017

  • Nonfiction

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  Goring Beauty

  Over 50 years later, more than half a century, I look at the pictures. Out of boxes and other wooden and steel containers, and buried deep under other albums, come these relics of a honeymoon.

  Colin DayanApr 7, 2016

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Throw Away Your Mind

  Colin Dayan writes about detachment in academic writing, writers on the edge, and Malcolm Lowry’s "Under the Volcano."

  Colin DayanNov 16, 2015

  • Literary Criticism

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  The Boycott Effect

  Colin DayanMar 16, 2014