Criticism

The Cure for Loneliness

To Erich Fromm, humanity was always trading freedom for the comfort of external authority.

  • Vivian Gornick

Hard Money Man

Paul Volcker’s career of public service reads as a history of the last half-century of American money.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

Dance with Me

The Many Partners of Fred Astaire

  • Megan Pugh

Looting

Female twists on Sophocles and Dante.

  • Rachel Galvin

Pleasure Principle

I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say by Anthony Madrid.

  • David Gorin

How It’s Made

Eileen Myles — Snowflake/different streets.

  • Kathleen Rooney

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An Embarrassment of Riches

Literature and the Ethics of Wealth in the Gilded Age

  • Gavin Jones

Games About Frames

Minimalists Craig Dworkin and Michael O’Brien

  • Stephanie Burt

A Love Story

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. 

  • Alan A. Stone

Syntactical Splurges

Bernadette Mayer’s The Scarlet Tanager.

  • Bryn Canner

Still a Man’s World

The myth of women’s ascendance.

  • Philip N. Cohen

Forget Harry Potter

Adults Should Read Joan Aiken's Wolves

  • John Crowley

Femininjas

Women in Fiction Fight Back

  • Elizabeth Hand

Glut Reactions

The Demographics of American Poetry

  • Mike Chasar
  • Jed Rasula

A March to the Grave

Joseph Roth and the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

  • Roger Boylan

Gone

For Mark Strand, the End Is in Sight

  • Jay Deshpande

Deathly Love and Lovely Death

Not many periods in history are as at odds with themselves as England’s Victorian era.

  • Colin Fleming

The Allen Files

Midnight in Paris earned Woody Allen his fourth Oscar and was the biggest box office success in his long and productive filmmaking career.

  • Alan A. Stone

Microreviews: Amaranth Borsuk, Handiwork

Winner of the 2011 Slope Editions Book Prize.

  • Anna Ross

Microreviews: Boni Joi, Before During or After Rainstorms

A vibrant and incisive first collection. 

  • Lynn Melnick

Forgetful Pleasures

Michel Houellebecq’s exciting tale of boredom.

  • Marta Figlerowicz

Arcadia for the Aged

John Madden, the distinguished British director of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, tells us that his film has the structure of a Shakespearean comedy.

  • Alan A. Stone

Amen

Ariana Reines’s Erotic Soul

  • BK Fischer

Microreviews: Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour

In her follow-up to Orchidelirium (2004), Deborah Landau explores a new relationship between the poet and the urban night.

  • Jay Deshpande
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