Criticism

Noir Voyager

Alan Furst’s glamorous, doomed world.

  • Roger Boylan

Homecoming

When I decided to tell the story of the dead in Yugoslavia, I learned the power of fiction as a political tool.

  • Natasha Radojcic-Kane

Taking Ideas Seriously

Can we distinguish political choices from philosophical truths?

  • Seyla Benhabib

Notes from the Underground

Disobedience by Alice Notley.

  • Brian Kim Stefans

The Biases of Grief

Song and Dance by Alan Shapiro.

  • Brian Henry

Microreviews: December 2002/January 2003

Thirteen new poetry collections.

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Dreams and Deceptions

Zhang Yimou loses his muse.

  • Alan A. Stone

Making History

In the new historical novel, the past is part of the fiction.

  • Richard A. Kaye

Unnatural Sentences

Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science.

  • Brenda Wineapple

Stripped-Down Sappho

More of the Tenth Muse shows through the fragments in an astonishing new translation.

  • John D’Agata

Celebrating a World in Danger

Jorie Graham's Never: Poems.
 

  • Bin Ramke

Modernism, Again

Two new collections by Jennifer Moxley and Geoffrey G. O’Brien.

  • Cole Swenson

Microreviews: October/November 2002

Eight new poetry collections.

Contingency and Grace

Jill and Karen Sprecher create characters worth believing in.

  • Alan A. Stone

Herkunftscomplex

On Thomas Bernhard, Austria’s most infamous novelist. 

  • Jason M. Baskin

Obsessive Love

Review: Lucius Shepard and David Gilmour

  • Richard Burgin

The War at Home

Review: Nora Eisenberg

  • Jill Eisenstadt

Zeeland

Review: Hans Konig

  • Roger Boylan

Under the Influence

The intoxicating power of Kate Braverman's first novel.

  • Rick Moody

Review: Torn Awake and Such Rich Hour

Two new poetry collections. 

  • BK Fischer

21st-Century Modernism

Pitting so-called postmodernism against modernism has given us a truncated view of literary history.

  • Yunte Huang

Review: Eunoia

By Christian Bök.

  • Brian Kim Stefans

Review: Zirconia and Miss America

Fence's new book series starts with a bang.

  • Cole Swensen

Microreviews: Summer 2002

Sixteen new poetry collections.

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