Drew Calvert

Drew Calvert is a freelance writer based in Chicago. His work has appeared in The American Reader, The Boston Review, Agni, and elsewhere.

Our Own Device

Michael Schmidt’s biography of the novel is uplifting, proving that the novel is here to stay....

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Applied Enlightenment

Honoring the literary life...

LITERARY CRITICISM

Through the Inverted Telescope: On Pankaj Mishra's "From the Ruins of Empire"

LISTENING TO A SPEECH by President Sukarno at the University of Indonesia in 1963, the scholar Benedict Anderson was surprised to hear the leader of this newly independent nation describe the Holocaust with, as he later recalled, “the kind of ...