Criticism

Nadia Boulanger: A Life Devoted to Music

  • Charles Fisk

The State of the Céline Industry

  • Milton Hindus

Reconsidering the Nonfiction Novel

  • J. M. Alonso

The Fictionalization of Self

On André Malraux.

  • William Cloonan

The Case of “The Unfinished Sentence”

  • Steven Kovacs

Modern Eastern European Fiction in Translation

  • Eva Hoffman

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Simone de Beauvoir Now

  • Martine Astier Loutfi

Power and Limits

  • Gail Pool

Up from Underground

  • Eugene Goodheart

Beyond One Hundred Years of Solitude

  • Alexander Coleman

Recent Books on Jazz

  • Michael Ullman

New Recordings of Charlie Parker

  • Michael Ullman

Taking Sci-Fi Seriously

  • Scott Sanders

Northrop Frye at Harvard

  • Luis Ellicott Yglesias

Cuba’s Alejo Carpentier

  • Gene Bell-Villada

Nabokov’s Pushkin Revisited

One cannot very well be neutral about a writer who so ostentatiously shuns neutrality himself.

  • R. W. Flint

Beyond Hadrian’s Memoirs

  • Alexander Coleman

Flann a la Creme

  • Bernard Benstock

Thomas Mann and Hesse: The Passing of Romanticism

  • Gert Bruhn

Edward Gorey’s Tantalizing Turns of the Screw

  • Selma Lanes

Fiction as Philosophy

On Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

  • Thomas Farrell
  • Thomas Frentz

The Fiction Collective Novels

  • Fanny Howe

This Man’s Scope and That Man’s Art

  • Jerrold Hickey

Gertrude Stein and the Rhythms of Life

  • Joel Porte
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