Cornel Bonca

Cornel Bonca is a professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Paul Simon: An American Tune, and a longtime contributor to LARB.

Articles

The Main Thing Is Dread: On Don DeLillo’s “The Silence”
Cornel Bonca contends with "The Silence," the latest novel from Don DeLillo.
Cornel BoncaDec 1, 2020
- Fiction
Not in Kansas: On The National’s “I Am Easy to Find”
Cornel Bonca reviews The National’s new album and the Mike Mills movie based on it.
Cornel BoncaJul 18, 2019
- Film
- Music
He Gets Us, He Really Gets Us: Jay McInerney’s “Bright, Precious Days” and the Sighs of the One Percent
The latest installment in Jay McInerney’s Manhattan Trilogy, a dutifully documented, tender-hearted take on The Way Manhattan’s Elite Live Now.
Cornel BoncaAug 13, 2016
- Fiction
Focusing on the Fundamentals
The music of Loreena McKennitt
Cornel BoncaMar 13, 2016
- Music
The Sob in the Spine
Mikel Jollett’s Rock ’n’ Roll Alchemy
Cornel BoncaOct 24, 2014
- Music
The Inner Sanctum: John Freeman’s “How to Read a Novelist”
If you’re an avid follower of contemporary fiction, then John Freeman’s How To Read A Novelist is the perfect, and perfectly modest, book.
Cornel BoncaNov 8, 2013
Salinger Betrayed: On Shane Salerno’s "Salinger"
The most unequivocal thing you can say about Shane Salerno’s documentary Salinger is that J.D. Salinger would have hated every single word and frame.
Cornel BoncaSep 15, 2013
Contact With The Real: On 'Cosmopolis'
The Singularity & late capitalism & technological despair — oh my!
Cornel BoncaSep 12, 2012
DeLillo's Inclinations Toward the Sacred
Sometime in the late 1970s, Don DeLillo stopped being embarrassed by his own inclinations toward the sacred.
Cornel BoncaApr 24, 2012
Being Boring
The novel — what we have of it anyway — challenges us to pay attention with a selflessness that allows the world to "blaze in an almost sacred way."
Cornel BoncaJan 8, 2012
- Fiction
- Literary Fiction