Cornel Bonca

Cornel Bonca is a professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Paul Simon: An American Tune, and a longtime contributor to LARB.

The Main Thing Is Dread: On Don DeLillo’s “The Silence”

Cornel Bonca contends with "The Silence," the latest novel from Don DeLillo....

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Not in Kansas: On The National’s “I Am Easy to Find”

Cornel Bonca reviews The National’s new album and the Mike Mills movie based on it....

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He Gets Us, He Really Gets Us: Jay McInerney’s “Bright, Precious Days” and the Sighs of the One Percent

The latest installment in Jay McInerney’s Manhattan Trilogy, a dutifully documented, tender-hearted take on The Way Manhattan’s Elite Live Now....

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Focusing on the Fundamentals

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird

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The Sob in the Spine

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The Inner Sanctum: John Freeman’s “How to Read a Novelist”

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Salinger Betrayed: On Shane Salerno’s "Salinger"

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“Bliss Unending”: Why Luhrmann’s Dangerously Romantic Take On Gatsby Works

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Contact With The Real: On 'Cosmopolis'

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DeLillo's Inclinations Toward the Sacred

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Being Boring

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