Mark Haskell Smith

Patriotic Obscenity: Aaron Poochigian and the Comedy of Aristophanes
Mark Haskell Smith talks Athenian rudeness with Aaron Poochigian, translator of “Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly.”
Mark Haskell SmithJun 20, 2021
- Cultural Studies
Gush. An Appreciation.
Let us embrace sensuality: to gush, to splatter, to be enthused.
Mark Haskell SmithApr 18, 2016
Big Cheese: Michael Paterniti's "The Telling Room"
Michael Paterniti falls in love with a cheese, or rather with the idea of this cheese, because he goes for years without tasting the creamy insides of his beloved queso.
Mark Haskell SmithSep 13, 2013
Always Raining: On Deborah Levy’s “Swimming Home”
Mark Haskell SmithDec 11, 2012
The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
Antoine Wilson, Ayelet Waldman, Ben Ehrenreich, Ben Loory, Dinah Lenney, Gary Phillips, Jane Smiley, Jennifer Egan, Julie Cline, Laila Lalami, Mark Haskell Smith, Mary Otis, Matt Weiland, Meghan Daum, Morgan Macgregor, Padget Powell, Sesshu Foster, Stephen Elliott, Sven BirkertsDec 23, 2011
Half Termite, Half Elephant
A shotgun blast of multitentacled musings, it splatters the author's obsessions across the cultural landscape
Mark Haskell SmithDec 1, 2011

Patriotic Obscenity: Aaron Poochigian and the Comedy of Aristophanes