Facing Facts, Facing Reality: On Deborah Nelson’s “Tough Enough”
Deborah Nelson’s “Tough Enough” examines how intellectual powerhouses including Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, and Diane Arbus face reality head on....
Grand Finale: On “The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence”
Kathleen Rooney reviews John T. Irwin’s “The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence.”...
The Lyric in Theory: A Conversation with Jonathan Culler
Francesco Giusti discusses the theory of the lyric with Jonathan Culler....
Discipline and Parse: The Politics of Close Reading
Bruce Robbins reviews Joseph North’s “Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History.”...
Streetwalker
Kate Wolf visits Lauren Elkin's "Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London."...
The Plot Thickens: James Shapiro’s “The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606”
Michael Paller reviews James Shapiro's latest book....
The Slide Rule and the Crowbar: Henry David Thoreau in the Anthropocene
Daegan Miller reviews Robert M. Thorson’s “The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years.”...
Sages and Holy Fools
Richard Kearney on Jason M. Wirth's "Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking."...
“Literature with a Capital L”: On Arthur Krystal’s “This Thing We Call Literature”
Patrick Kurp appreciates the serious “sallies” of “This Thing We Call Literature” by Arthur Krystal....
Between Philosophy and History: On Guido Mazzoni’s “Theory of the Novel”
Alberto Comparini delves into “Theory of the Novel” by Guido Mazzoni....
A Safe Place
Heather Scott Partington on Yiyun Li's "Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You in Your Life."...
How to Do Things with Genres
Marta Figlerowicz on André Jolles’s "Simple Forms."...
