Contemporaries Essays

Weepies, Women, and The Fault In Our Stars

10.02.14

Jill Richards

Irreducible Complexity: The Ironies of Reif Larsen’s The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

10.02.14

Tim Lanzendörfer

Caught on Tape: Female Self-Exposure and Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs

08.17.13

Maggie Doherty

Haut-Bourgeois Precarity in Boston: The Company Men

01.24.13

Derek Nystrom

The Importance of Rescuing the Frog: What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About the Climate Crisis

10.14.12

Lee Zimmerman

[_]Tree[_] of C[___]od[__]es

05.24.12

Matt Rager

“What the ghost wants”: Kevin Young’s Ekphrasis

04.03.12

Stefanie Wortman

Looking at ekphrasis in this way can help us to see it as another in a series of projects to undermine or complicate the centrality of self in the lyric.

Loving Miéville’s Sentences

02.12.12

Joel Burges

What does it mean to love your object of critique, especially when you know better?

Scale and Method: A Reply to Jeremy Rosen

01.02.12

Matthew Wilkens

Combining Close and Distant, or, the Utility of Genre Analysis: A Response to Matthew Wilkens’s “Contemporary Fiction by the Numbers”

12.03.11

Jeremy Rosen

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