Criticism

The Fugitive

The Violence Within/The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Poetics.

  • John Hulsey

Radical Pastoral

Review: Selected and New Poems from John Kinsella.

  • Emily Apter

Last Battle

Burn!, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

  • Alan A. Stone

The Lost Ones

John Banville's existentialist novels.

  • Roger Boylan

A Knot of Obsessions

The Collected Poems of Ted Hughes.

  • Carol Bere

Fellow Travelers

Fanny Howe's Gone.

  • Karen Volkman

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Their Kind of Town

New collections from young American poets.

  • Stephanie Burt

Microreviews: February/March 2004

Seven new publications.

A Good Look

The Station Agent, directed by Thomas McCarthy.

  • Alan A. Stone

Believing in America

An intellectual project and a national ideal.

  • Leo Marx

Mirage or No Mirage

Reading Los Angeles.

  • Scott Saul

Conrad’s List

Working at the Eighth Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village.

  • M.G. Stephens

Marketplace Multiculturalism

Monica Ali's Brick Lane.

  • M.K. Chakrabarti

All About Her Mother

The Midnight by Susan Howe. 

  • John Palattella

Simic’s Peregrinations

Reading The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems.

  • Benjamin Paloff

Like Theseus through the Maze

The Soldiers of Year II by Medbh McGuckian. 

  • Jenny Ludwig

Microreviews: December 2003/January 2004

Six new collections of poetry.

Buona Sera, Social Clubs?

Three collections of Italian American writing.

  • Alane S. Mason

Two White Americans

Poetry that looks at the acidic and the absurd in American culture.

  • Paul Killebrew

Say Goodbye to Everything

Blue Hour by Carolyn Forché.

  • John Palattella

Back to Jarrell

Stephen Burt 's Randall Jarrell and His Age. 
 

  • Jacques Khalip

Microreviews: Oct/Nov 2003

Eight new collections of poetry.

Realism’s Redemption

Sweet Sixteen and Raising Victor Vargas.

  • Alan A. Stone

Cheap Shots

Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine.

  • Alan A. Stone
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