Criticism

The Light in the Heart

Decreation by Anne Carson.

  • Joyelle McSweeney

The Speaking Ear

Radi Os by Ronald Johnson.

  • Dan Beachy-Quick

Review: Like Wind Loves a Window

By Andrea Baker.

  • Stefania Heim

Review: The Descent

By Sophie Cabot Black.

  • Robert Schnall

Review: Donald Revell, Pennyweight Windows.

Poems that mine solitary landscapes and mindscapes.

  • Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Review: Dunya Mikhail, The War Works Hard

The first translation of poems by a female Iraqi poet to be published in the United States.

  • Susan Barba

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Review: And Then Something Happened

Poems that point outwards toward realities beyond the poem.

  • Heidi Lynn Staples

Ian McEwan’s Family Values

 A once-in-a-generation writer.

  • Roger Boylan

A Cartoon World

Daniel Clowes’s “comic-strip novel” Ice Haven.

  • Ken Parille

Borrowed Lines

  • Susan M. Schultz

An American Prophet

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead.

  • M.K. Chakrabarti

Poetry Is Poetry

On John Ashbery.

  • James Longenbach

The Witness Takes a Stand

June Jordan wrote from her experience in a woman’s body and a dark skin, though never solely “as” or “for.”

  • Adrienne Rich

Robert Capa’s Hope

The photographer wanted to show what freedom, and the people who made it, looked like.

  • Susie Linfield

New Jews from the Old Country

A new wave of immigrant fiction.

  • Val Vinokur

Review: Otherhood

By Reginald Shepherd.

  • Robert Strong

Who Owns Bruno Schulz?

Poland stumbles over its Jewish past.

  • Benjamin Paloff

The Uses Of Fantasy

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

  • Jennifer Howard

See No Evil

On Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou.

  • Alan A. Stone

Master of the Same New Things

On Richard Howard.

  • James Longenbach

The Politics of Reading

On Marjorie Welish.

  • Zack Finch

Review: Not Even Then

By Brian Blanchfield

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder

Review: As in Every Deafness

By Graham Foust.

  • Jeffrey Jullich

Review: Eyeshot

By Heather McHugh.

  • Spencer Short
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