Ryan McIlvain is the author of two novels, most recently The Radicals (Hogarth, 2018). He teaches in the English and Writing Department at the University of Tampa.
Ryan McIlvain
Articles
The Deep Engine of Witness
Ryan McIlvain finds the truth worth telling in Rickey Laurentiis’s “Death of the First Idea” and Geoff Bouvier’s “Us from Nothing: A Poetic History.”
Eros, Meet Thanatos
Ryan McIlvain reviews Samantha Allen’s “Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet.”
The Spectacle of Spectating: On Samantha Allen’s “Patricia Wants to Cuddle”
Ryan McIlvain reviews Samantha Allen’s new novel, “Patricia Wants to Cuddle.”
"Progress Is Happening and It's Happening Everywhere": A Conversation with Samantha Allen
Ryan McIlvain interviews Samantha Allen, author of "Real Queer America."
Literatainment: A Personal Breakthrough
Ryan McIlvain reflects on the possibilities of merging high-brow literature with low-brow entertainment.
Provisionally Speaking: An Interview with Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem discusses his ambivalence toward success, being grouped by first name, and his newest novel, “A Gambler’s Anatomy.”
Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand
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