Fuck the Poetry Police: On the Index of Major Literary Prizes in the United States
Dan Sinykin breaks down the Post45 Data Collective set on literary awards compiled by Stephanie Young and Juliana Spahr.
Dan Sinykin breaks down the Post45 Data Collective set on literary awards compiled by Stephanie Young and Juliana Spahr.
Dan SinykinJan 9, 2023
William Collins Donahue reviews Stephen D. Dowden’s “Modernism and Mimesis.”
William Collins DonahueJan 5, 2023
Matthew K. Ritchie draws parallels between Mohsin Hamid’s “The Last White Man” and “Black No More,” George Schuyler’s satire from 1931.
Matthew K. RitchieJan 2, 2023
Natalie Dunn speaks with Amina Cain about her new book “A Horse at Night: On Writing.”
Natalie DunnDec 30, 2022
Joshua Hren reviews Adam Nicolson’s “The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels.”
Joshua HrenDec 11, 2022
Gracie Hadland reviews Constance Debré’s “Love Me Tender.”
Gracie HadlandDec 8, 2022
Nicholas C. Laudadio reviews Justin St. Clair’s “Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age.”
Nicholas C. LaudadioNov 5, 2022
Jason Crawford discusses the career of Robert Armin, the first modern comedian.
Jason CrawfordNov 4, 2022
Brahim El Guabli analyzes the postcolonial emergence of Amazigh literature.
Brahim El GuabliOct 28, 2022
Caterina Domeneghini reviews Peter Brooks’s new book “Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative.”
Caterina DomeneghiniOct 17, 2022
Nathan Jefferson reviews Brooks E. Hefner’s “Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow,” an introduction to often overlooked pulp stories...
Nathan JeffersonOct 6, 2022
Michael S. Roth considers Stanley Cavell's "Here and There: Sites of Philosophy."
Michael S. RothSep 30, 2022
Tom Sperlinger reviews Jonathan Bate’s new book “Mad About Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room.”
Tom SperlingerSep 28, 2022
Kathy Chow reviews Elaine Castillo’s new collection of essays, “How To Read Now.”
Kathy ChowAug 9, 2022
Steven Shaviro reviews "Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth," a new academic collection of weird ecocriticism edited by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund...
Steven ShaviroAug 6, 2022
The long-prophesied “death of the author” has made us all authors of unceasing social narratives.
Jared Marcel PollenJul 18, 2022
Jason DeYoung reads Shushan Avagyan’s new translation of Viktor Shklovsky’s classic work, “On the Theory of Prose.”
Jason DeYoungJul 3, 2022
Kelly Baker Josephs reviews Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s “Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage.”
Kelly Baker JosephsJul 1, 2022
Alexandra Kingston-Reese charts “Life-Destroying Diagrams,” the new book by Eugenie Brinkema.
Alexandra Kingston-ReeseJun 25, 2022
Antonio J. Ferraro responds to Richard Joseph on the state of contemporary literary criticism, online and elsewhere.
Antonio J. FerraroMay 31, 2022
Matthew Eatough assesses two new books by Joe Cleary, “Modernism, Empire, World Literature” and “The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist...
Matthew EatoughMay 30, 2022
Our culture is preoccupied with content to the almost total exclusion of form, and that’s bad.
Colin MarshallMay 22, 2022
Andrew Neilson gets under the skin of Jonathan F. S. Post’s “Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction.”
Andrew NeilsonMay 2, 2022
When your dinner-party host offers you a madeleine, how do you respond, and why?
Colton ValentineApr 14, 2022