Michael North teaches English at UCLA. His recent publications include Novelty: A History of the New (2013), What Is the Present? (2018), and “The Afterlife of Modernism” (2019).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Once More, with Feeling
Sam See’s work will always be timely, in that it calls us to attend to the transformative power of the feelings that go into a work of literature...

I Go On: Michael North on Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones”
It is this sense of a life in which emptiness creates a kind of positive pressure, preventing its collapse, that makes “Echo’s Bones” prophetic of the great works that were to follow it....

Postal Modernism
On two volumes of letters by Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett....
