Criticism

Absurd Humanism

Divided We Fall, directed by Jan Hřebejk and Petr Jarchovský.

Alfred Nobel and His Prizes

Does literature really need a “gold standard”?

A Distinctive Kind of Loner 

The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

Love Among the Ruins

Reviewing Robert Clark. 

Reading Frederick Seidel 

The Cosmos Poems and Life on Earth.

Review: How to Do Things with Tears

By Allen Grossman.

Review: Carson, Fulton, Rankine

Poetic experiments in three mid-career books.

Microreviews: October/November 2001

Ten new poetry collections. 

Zhang Yimou’s Long Road Home

The personal and aesthetic odyssey of China's premier director.

Becoming Literature

James Merrill's poetry of autobiography and social comedy.

Review: By the Sea

By Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Review: A Few Corrections and The Partnership

By Brad Leithauser and Barry Unsworth. 
 

Review: The Rights of Desire

By André Brink. 

Reading Gjertrud Schnackenberg

The Throne of Labdacus and Supernatural Love.

Review: Revenants

By Mark Nowak.

Review: Comp.

By Kevin Davies.

Review: Clarvoe, Doris, Klink

A second book of poems and two debut collections.

Microreviews: Summer 2001

Nine new poetry collections.

The Kingdom of Moravia

The Marxist-inspired moralism of the acclaimed Italian novelist. 

Review: Paradise Park

By Allegra Goodman.

Review: Beloved Stranger

By Clare Boylan.

Review: The Song of the Earth

By Hugh Nissenson. 

The Last Gentleman

A friend and student remembers Richard Yates.

Review: The Beforelife

By Franz Wright.

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