Criticism

Innocents Abroad

We Were Soldiers, directed by Randall Wallace.

  • Alan A. Stone

High Art in the Age of Oprah

The case of Jonathan Franzen.

  • James Campbell

The Far North

Review: Harold Norman

  • Drake Bennett

Where Every Eye’s a Guard

Rae Armantrout's poetry of suspicion.

  • Stephanie Burt

Seven New Books

From Cathy Park Hong to Andrew Zawacki.

  • Calvin Bedient

Review: Transfigurations

The collected poems of Jay Wright.

  • Steven Meyer

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Three Irish Poets

Revieing Carson, Muldoon, and Murphy.

  • Thomas O’Grady

Microreviews: April/May 2002

Seventeen new poetry collections.

A Beautiful Illusion

John Nash and the Hollywood romance with mental illness.

  • Alan A. Stone

Writing in Exile

Forsaking domestic comforts, James Hamilton-Paterson explores his inner life and our human nature.

  • Roger Boylan

Snakes and Ladders

Eric Ambler's newly reissued spy thrillers confront a century of political treachery.

  • Jennifer Howard

 Lovers, Spouses, Prostitutes.

Review: The Spirit Returns.

  • Ethan Paquin

Review: Darkling

By Anna Rabinowitz.

  • Bin Ramke

Review: The Mercy Seat

Collected & New Poems, 1967-2001 from Norman Dubie.

  • Ian Tromp

Review: alphabet and Ring of Fire

  • Andrew Zawacki

New American Prose Poetry

Review: The American Prose Poem and The Tormented Mirror.

  • Max Winter

Microreviews: February/March 2002

Eleven new poetry collections.

Desperately Seeking Sex

Intimacy, directed by Patrice Chereau.

  • Alan A. Stone

The Territory of Trauma

A novelist confronts the ethics and politics of her art.

  • Joyce Hackett

On Paula Fox

Credible contradictions.

  • Randall Curb

Beyond Vanilla

A review of Anthology of Twentieth-Century British & Irish Poetry.

  • Stephanie Burt

Review: If in Time

Selected Poems 1975–2000 from Ann Lauterbach.

  • Thomas Fink

Review: Paradise & Method and The Language of Inquiry

Two very different strands of Language writing. 

  • Brian Kim Stefans

Microreviews: December 2001/January 2002

Ten new poetry collections.

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