Criticism

Review: Wrong

By Reginald Shepherd. 

  • Brian Henry

Review: Men in the Off Hours

By Anne Carson. 

  • John D’Agata

Microreviews: Summer 2000

Eight new poetry collections. 

Split Personality

Girl, Interrupted, directed by James Mangold. 

  • Alan A. Stone

Trials of Conscience

Review: Peter Gadol and Robert C. S. Downs.

  • Randall Curb

Review: Blonde

By Joyce Carol Oates. 

  • Jill Eisenstadt

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Review: Fay

By Larry Brown. 

  • Roger Boylan

Review: Blue Angel

By Francine Prose.

  • Lucinda Rosenfeld

Review: The Father of the Predicaments

By Heather McHugh. 

  • Richard Howard

Review: O Wheel

By Peter Sacks. 

  • Donald Revell

Review: Then, Suddenly—

By Lynn Emanuel. 

  • BK Fischer

Review: The Character and Polyverse

Two first "full length" volumes. 

  • Brian Lennon

Shakespeare’s Tarantino Play

Titus, directed by Julie Taymor.

  • Alan A. Stone

The Cult of Authenticity

India’s cultural commissars worship “Indianness” instead of art.

  • Vikram Chandra

Beauty and Redemption

American Beauty and Elaine Scarry look for aesthetic experience in unexpected places. 

  • Alan A. Stone

The Mysterious Romance of Murder

The enduring highbrow fascination with detective stories.

  • David Lehman

In the Machinery

By Alice Elliott Dark and Tracy Chevalier.

  • Felicia Ackerman

Golden States

Review: Lucia Berlin and Liza Wieland.

  • Susan Daitch

Embracing Defeat

How the publishing industry is failing readers—and how it could do better.

  • Neal Gabler

Review: American by Blood

By Andrew Huebner.

Review: Sick Puppy

By Carl Hiaasen.

  • James Hynes

Review: Equal Love

By Peter Ho Davies.

  • Randall Curb

Prose Microreviews: February/March 2000

From Tupperware to Stalin. 

Review: Wake

By Bin Ramke. 

  • Max Winter
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