Ivan Kreilkamp

Ivan Kreilkamp is an associate professor in the Department of English at Indiana University, where he is also a co-editor of the journal Victorian Studies. He’s published recently in Public Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New Yorker online.

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....

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LITERARY CRITICISM

HISTORY

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)....

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MUSIC

MEMOIR & ESSAY

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 ...

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A Rage That Had No End: The Novels of Elena Ferrante

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