William Flesch teaches English at Brandeis. He is the author of, among other books, The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 19th Century (2009), and of many articles on poetic form.
William Flesch
Articles
Burning Pages: On Elisa Gonzalez’s “Grand Tour”
William Flesch reviews Elisa Gonzalez’s new poetry collection “Grand Tour.”
A Wilderness of Mirrors: On Javier Marías’s “Tomás Nevinson”
William Flesch reviews Spanish author Javier Marías’s final novel, “Tomás Nevinson.”
One Feels a Malady: On Robert N. Watson’s “Cultural Evolution and its Discontents”
William Flesch reviews "Cultural Evolution and its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure."
A Quotable Love Story
An Honest Ghost, a novel constructed of quotations from other novels, becomes nothing less than a powerfully moving story of love, and loss, and their precious remainders, or the story rather of how what you love is always at risk of becoming only the trace and remainder of itself.
Sex Sells: Helen DeWitt's "Lightning Rods"
Paradoxes of Altruism in the Digital Age
The Evil of Banality
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