Category: Criticism Winter 2020 The Going: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and The Dolphin Letters Full Text by Meg Schoerke Winter 2020 In Flight from the Fugitives Full Text by Mark Jarman Summer 2019 Among the Barbarians: V. S. Naipaul and His Critics Full Text by Elizabeth Powers Winter 2019 A Being in Time: On the Poetry of Frederick Morgan by David Mason Winter 2019 Gods, Gurus, and the Search for the Holy Grail: Bach Recordings from 2018 Full Text by Elizabeth Lyon Summer 2018 Daphne du Maurier: Back to Manderley Again by Richard Tillinghast Summer 2018 From The Beauty of the World, Part I Full Text by Jean Starobinski , Richard Pevear Spring 2018 Of Shanties and Slavery by Dean Flower Spring 2018 My Ever New Delight: The Pleasures of Paradise Lost Full Text by Robert Crossley Winter 2018 “I who was once the favorite of the gods” by Bruce Whiteman Winter 2018 Associations of Thought Full Text by Alexandra Mullen Spring 2017 Donald Davie Among the Zanies by Robert Archambeau Winter 2017 Dickinson’s Nerves by William Logan Autumn 2015 Don Quixote or the Art of Becoming Full Text by Antonio Muñoz Molina Summer 2015 Maxine Kumin 1925–2014: The Long Approach: A Life in Poetry Full Text by Eleanor Wilner Summer 2015 Big Love Full Text by Cynthia Lewis Summer 2015 Not Today’s Conservative by Brooke Allen Spring 2015 Two Poets Named Dunstan Thompson Full Text by Dana Gioia Spring 2015 On the Experience of Fiction Full Text by Antonio Muñoz Molina Winter 2015 Mind and Mindlessness in Jane Austen by Timothy Peltason Winter 2015 “What Might Have Been and What Has Been”: How T. S. Eliot Looked at Lives Full Text by Lyndall Gordon Autumn 2014 William Maxwell’s Palace by Mara Naselli Autumn 2014 Antonio Muñoz Molina: Narrative Across Time Full Text by James Santel Summer 2014 Writing for God: The Life and Work of George Herbert Full Text by Mark Jarman Summer 2014 Hector Berlioz’s “To be or not to be” Full Text by Peter Bloom Spring 2014 Personages and the Claim of the Heart in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov by Emily Grosholz Summer 2011 John Adams: Innocent Sage by Brooke Allen Summer 2011 Marvellous by William H. Pritchard Autumn 2011 The Sadness That Lurks: Robert Frost and the Poetry of Poverty by Thomas Duddy Winter 2012 Kafka: The Death-Journey by Victor Brombert Winter 2014 Sappho; or, on Loss by Bruce Whiteman Winter 2014 On David Foster Wallace’s Conservatism Full Text by James Santel Autumn 2013 In the Village and Other Stories by Dean Flower Autumn 2013 Message, Meaning and Code in the Operas of Benjamin Britten Full Text by James Conlon Summer 2013 On the Inner Lives of Ghosts by Antonio Muñoz Molina Summer 2013 Caves, Masks, and Code Switching: The Inventive Narratives of Junot Díaz by Susan Balée Spring 2013 Vengeance on a Dumb Brute, Ahab?: An Environmentalist Reading of Moby-Dick Full Text by Dean Flower Spring 2013 From To Breathe with Birds by Václav Cílek , Evan W. Mellander, trans. Autumn 2011 Frank Kermode’s Magnificent Usefulness Full Text by Dean Flower Winter 2013 The Motive for Metaphor Full Text by Denis Donoghue Winter 2013 Horatio Hornblower by Igor Webb Summer 2011 Shakespeare’s Epitaph Full Text by Alfred Corn Autumn 2012 The Battle for Joan by Frederick Brown Autumn 2012 “The Progress of Irony” and “The Sense That Everything Is Going Wrong” Full Text by E. M. Cioran , Tess Lewis Winter 2010 Three Presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound Full Text by Denis Donoghue Autumn 2012 The Songs of Thibaut de Champagne (1201–1253) by Anne Ibos-Augé , Emily Grosholz Spring 2012 The Dark Delight of Ambrose Bierce by David Mason Spring 2012 Ben Jonson: Poet by William H. Pritchard Autumn 2009 Compacting Time: Anne Stevenson’s Poems of Memory Full Text by Emily Grosholz Summer 2012 Found in Translation by Lorna Knowles Blake ← Older articles