Ryan Lackey is a writer, critic, and PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley. His criticism and fiction have appeared in Post45, Los Angeles Review of Books, Commonweal, Kenyon Review, Cream City Review, and elsewhere.
Ryan Lackey
Articles
The Novella in the Age of Being Performatively Offline
Ryan Lackey considers Damion Searls’s take on the vertiginous effects of digital life in “Analog Days.”
Grief-Wild in This Orphan World: On R. O. Kwon’s “Exhibit”
Ryan Lackey reviews R. O. Kwon’s new novel “Exhibit.”
“Dungeons & Dragons” and Baseball; or, Robert Coover Fights the Robot Umps
Ryan Lackey considers baseball, robots, and collaborative storytelling.
The Familiar Is Always Strange: Erica Trabold’s Lyric Essays
A debut collection of essays explores family, memory, space, and place.
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