Getting Acquainted with Wallace Stevens
Kate Stanley discusses Joan Richardson’s book on Wallace Stevens, “How to Live, What to Do.”...
TMI: Confession and Performance
Brian Glavey reviews Christopher Grobe’s “The Art of Confession:The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV.”...
The Peculiar Objecthood of the “Yellow Woman”
Sunny Xiang reviews Anne Anlin Cheng's "Ornamentalism."...
Russianness Under Foreign Skies: On Edyta M. Bojanowska’s “A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada”
Yelena Furman navigates “A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada,” by Edyta M. Bojanowska....
Philly and South Jersey Gothic: On Jay A. Gertzman’s “Pulp According to David Goodis”
Woody Haut picks up “Pulp According to David Goodis” by Jay A. Gertzman....
On Gravity and Play: In Conversation with Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri on literary activism, alternative modernisms, and the comedy of friendship....
The Mexican Phoenix Rises: On “Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop”
Ed Simon considers “Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop” by Ilan Stavans....
The Jewish Body in Pain
Sunny S. Yudkoff’s cultural lens is intriguing, but her close readings of literary works are what enliven "Tubercular Capital."...
Our Placeless Condition
Hadji Bakara reviews Lyndsey Stonebridge’s “Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees.”...
tl;dr: On “Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century”
Gill Partington makes time for Christina Lupton’s “Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century.”...
Why Literature Professors Turned Against Authors — Or Did They?
The intentions of authors still matter, no matter what the critics say....
Letter to the Editor: Timothy Aubry Responds to Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s Review of His “Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures”
Timothy Aubry responds to Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s LARB review of his “Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures” (December 12, 2018)....
