Criticism

Review: Swarm

By Jorie Graham. 

  • Andrew Osborn

Three New Poetry Collections

On Mark Wunderlick, Dana Levin, and Brenda Shaughnessy.

  • Reginald Shepherd

In Defense of Poetry

Put the literature back into literary studies.

  • Marjorie Perloff

The Sublime Beethoven

What the composer and Kant had in common.

  • Dmitri Tymoczko

American Faith, American Violence

Reading Robert Stone.

  • Michael Greenberg

Western Voices

Reading Kent Haruf.

  • Laura Hendrie

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Voices from the Old Country

Review: Leslie Epstein and Judy Budnitz.

  • Paul Gediman

Review: How Aliens Think

By Judith Grossman.

  • Susan Daitch

Review: The Walking Tour

By Kathryn Davis.

  • Edwin Frank

Review: Walkin’ the Dog

By Walter Mosley.

  • Peter McCarthy

Review: Girls on the Run

By John Ashbery. 

  • John D’Agata

Review: Towards the Blanched Alphabets

By Gustaf Sobin.

  • Andrew Zawacki

Review: Trappings

By Richard Howard.

  • Benjamin Ivry

Review: The Last Avant-Garde

By David Lehman.

  • Michael Tyrell

Microreviews: December 1999/January 2000

Eight new poetry collections. 

The Artist as Survivor

King of Masks, directed by Wu Tian Ming.

  • Alan A. Stone

The Borrowers

Review: Pia Pera and Sena Jeter Naslund.

  • Michael Greenberg

Contests of Will

Review: Miranda Seymour and Laura Hendrie.

  • Donna Seaman

The Human and the Monstrous

A novelist and his reviewer debate the literary representation of Hitler.

  • Melvin Jules Bukiet
  • Ron Hansen

Behind the Beat

The pages of Neurotica.

  • James Campbell

Review: Zwilling’s Dream

By Ross Feld.

  • James Hynes

Review: Fool

By Frederick G. Dillen.

  • Paul Gediman

Review: The Catastrophist

By Ronan Bennett.

  • Jennifer Howard

Review: Pierce-Arrow

By Susan Howe.

  • Brian Lennon
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