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Originality Is Unmusical: On Scott Miller’s Pop Music Criticism
Ivan Kreilkamp looks at the late Scott Miller's pop magnum opus....
Ivan Kreilkamp
Ivan Kreilkamp teaches in the Department of English at Indiana University. He has published three books, most recently Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel (Chicago UP, 2018) and A Visit From the Goon Squad Reread (Columbia UP, 2021). He has also published widely on contemporary fiction, film, animals, and pop music in Public Books, The New Yorker online, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, The Point, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, and elsewhere.
Articles
Pistols at Dawn
John Leigh’s Touché: The Duel in Literature surveys literary duels from Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid to Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain....
Creativity Under Capitalism: The Pop Music Critic as Public Intellectual
Robert Christgau, Dean of American Rock Critics, is a much-needed example of the public intellectual unafraid of tapping into his academic voice (and persona)....
Maximal Anxiety
THE NEW YORKER'S editor David Remnick has dubbed Roz Chast “the magazine's only certifiable genius," but to some of the magazine’s readers, she is just another cartoonist in the stable of regulars — the one who sketches neurotic New Yorkers in ...
A Rage That Had No End: The Novels of Elena Ferrante
Invariably damaged, Ferrante’s narrators and protagonists suffer from injuries that tend to shift, disconcertingly, from the figurative to the literal....
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