Lee Konstantinou is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He wrote the novel Pop Apocalypse (2009) and the literary history Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (2016). With Samuel Cohen, he co-edited The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (2012). He is currently completing a study of Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Noise of Our Names: On “Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies”
Lee Konstantinou reviews "Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies" by Toril Moi, Rita Felski, and Amanda Anderson....
The Hangman of Critique
Are we in the Postcritical Age?...
William Gibson’s Breakfast Burrito
“The Peripheral is thus less interested in specifying two fully articulated hypothetical futures than in inviting us to reflect on our present-day imaginative relationship to the future …”...
Kingsley Amis’s SF Addiction
IT MAY SEEM strange that many of the best science fiction writers are also the genre’s best critics. After all, ...
Jonathan Lethem: An Interview and a Review
An interview and review with Jonathan Lethem, on his latest novel Dissident Gardens...
Outborough Destiny: Jonathan Lethem’s “Dissident Gardens”
Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens is an assured, expert literary performance by one of our most important writers....
Barbarians at the Wormhole: On Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed are minor masterpieces of the dystopian subgenre and are unusually clear in their anxieties...
Too Big to Succeed: On William Gaddis’s “J R”
AMERICAN LITERATURE'S HANGING in there, thanks in no small part to Dalkey Archive Press. Earlier this year, Dalkey reprinted two massively ...
“We’d Hate To Lose You”: On the Biography of David Foster Wallace
WHEN DAVID FOSTER WALLACE committed suicide on September 12, 2008, at the age of 46, it was inevitable that we’d ...
Comics in the Expanded Field: Harkham's Most Ambitious Anthology Yet
A SPECTER HAUNTS the eighth issue of the avant-garde comics anthology Kramers Ergot: the specter of Kramers Ergot 7. Cartoonist Sammy ...
Anti-Comprehension Pills
what may seem most revolutionary about Barthes’s essay is what it takes for granted: that there are readers at all for literary fiction...
Never Again, Again
Spiegelman has yet to recover from the trauma of his creation's success....
It's Good To Be Pragmatic: An Interview with Helen DeWitt
Forget about writing. There’s a debate, a conflict, a dilemma, that everyone faces....
Hurricane Helen
Whereas DeWitt often talks about fiction as if it were a vehicle for presenting exciting ideas, the tendency of American culture is toward relaxation....
Unfinished Form
We best remember Wallace, a walking dead man in our psych ward of a world, by looking past his own personality to our fallen American condition....
