Bride of Deconstruction
The publication of A Life with Mary Shelley shows exactly what was at stake in the reclamation of Mary Shelley’s absorbing novel for a whole...
The publication of A Life with Mary Shelley shows exactly what was at stake in the reclamation of Mary Shelley’s absorbing novel for a whole...
In "No Crisis," we hope to show that the art of criticism is flourishing, rich with intellectual power and sustaining beauty, in hard times.
Rather than simply making the familiar strange, Rita Felski’s "Uses of Literature" often recasts the familiar as wondrous.
Rei Terada’s "Looking Away" has given us a grammar for the feeling of wanting to escape from something unfixable.
Jennifer Doyle’s Hold It Against Me explores the difficult. Some difficulty is good for us. And some, it seems, is not.
“In fact, if there were time, we could rehearse how the sign “lesbian” has functioned historically as a bold estranging force, breeding estrangements...
Lauren Berlant is a critic’s critic, a feminist’s feminist, and a thinker’s friend.
"Modernism was not an idea, not a singular and well-formed position. The multiplicity and heterogeneity of its dimensions have to be addressed."
My experience with Feldman indicates how, in a time when cultural artifacts are abundantly available, our primary focus has migrated from use to...
"Being Mortal" draws on the strengths of both the humanities and the sciences to demonstrate one of life's harder lessons: how to really listen to...
Kenneth W. Warren discusses "The Program Era."
"The challenge Adrian Piper models for us, her critical instigation, is to live in the present experimentally."
"Buried not very far under the critique of racial theft is a privileging of African-American expressive culture as a resource in and of itself."
The crisis of criticism is in what no longer gets written, in what never gets written in the first place. Part of LARB's No Crisis series.