Criticism

Bellow’s Blues

  • William Chace

Philosophy According to Nozick

On Philosophical Explanations.

  • Daniel Dennett

Images of Apocalypse

The artwork of nuclear survivors.

  • Estelle Jussim

Is There Life After Doomsday?

None of us should rest as long as nuclear weapons are loose in the world.

  • Howard L. Rosenberg

Rx for the Second Sex

  • Suzanne Gordon

Philosophers on Photography

  • Pepe Karmel

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Approaching 1984

  • William Chace

Two Tales of the City

Anti-urbanism in American literature.

  • Leo Marx

Miles Davis in Retrospect

  • Michael Ullman

The Ethnocentric Icon

Can photographers, unlike writers, leave their native land with impunity?

  • Estelle Jussim

The Marxist Poets of Beacon Hill

  • Alan Wald

Returning to the Heartland

On the poetry of James Wright.

  • Bonnie Costello

Lillian Hellman’s Uncertainties

  • Pam Bromberg

Poetry and Power

On Seamus Heaney.

  • Shaun O’Connell

Bernhard’s Inferno

  • Lyle Rexer

The Difficulties of George Steiner

For Steiner, there is nothing worth knowing about the text that the text does not somewhere contain.

  • Mark Edmundson

Gunther Grass Floundering

Grass is haunted by the memory, meaning, and implications of World War II, and it is only through children that he can make some sense out of what happened.

  • William Cloonan

William Carlos Williams in a World of Painters

His great achievement was to bring some of the qualities of painting into poetry.

  • Bonnie Costello

The Duke and His Only Son

  • Alexander Coleman

Cocteau the Invisible

  • Shelley Temchin Henze

Edmund Wilson’s Quarrel with Literature

  • Luis Ellicott Yglesias

Doris Lessing Out of Africa

  • Ruth Perry

Back with the Agrarians

Reassessing the movement of Southern critics.

  • Elizabeth McKinsey

Letters from Prison

On Nazim Hikmet’s poetry.

  • Ellen Ervin
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