Nonfiction
Autumn 2006
A Martyr to Happiness: Why Adorno Matters
Criticism has power only to the extent to which every successful or unsuccessful sentence has something to do with die fate of humankind. —Notes on Literature 307 The need to […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1991
Twilight of the Idols
Ginsberg: A Biography by Barry Miles. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. 588 pages. $24.95. The Life and Death of Andy Warhol by Victor Bockris. New York: Bantam Books, 1989. […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1990
Harold Bloom’s Critical Sublime
The Poetics of Influence: New and Selected Criticism by Harold Bloom, edited and with an introduction by John Hollander. New Haven: Henry R. Schwab, 1988. 450 pages. $39.95, cloth, $19.95, […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1990
A Postmodern Jeremiah
Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings ed. Mark Poster. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1988. 230 pages. $32.50, cloth; $10.95, paper. Jean Baudrillard has been a presence on the French scene […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1989
Still Playing Possum after All These Years
The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume I, 1898-1922 edited by Valerie Eliot. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. 639 pages. $24.95. Eliot’s New Life by Lyndall Gordon. New York: […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1989
The Theorist as the Letter ‘T’
Ariel and the Police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens by Frank Lentricchia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. 259 pp. $22.95. Frank Lentricchia’s Ariel and the Police presents itself […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1988
Masking the Needs of Art
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 680 pages. $24.95. Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats and Modernism by James Longenbach. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 329 […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1988
Joyce: Autobiography, History, Narrative
It has long been recognized that the writing of the century’s premier prose fictionist is largely indifferent to the interests of “story,” action, plot, events, things happening. Joyce acknowledged as […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1988
New Collections of American Poetry, Prose
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: Volume I 1909-1939 edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1987. 579 pages. $35.00. The Complete Prose of […]