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Contemporaries Essays

Interview: Maaza Mengiste

10.17.14

In the first interview for this series, the novelist Maaza Mengiste spoke with me from New York City, on the thirteenth anniversary of 9/11. We discussed her acclaimed first novel, Beneath…

Peer Reviewed Articles

Dialectic of Sincerity: Lionel Trilling and David Foster Wallace

10.17.14

Adam Kelly

Contemporaries Essays

“Destroying” the Text to Create the Poem

10.02.14

Genevieve Kaplan

Contemporaries Essays

Weepies, Women, and The Fault In Our Stars

10.02.14

Jill Richards

Contemporaries Essays

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

10.02.14

Tim Lanzendörfer

Peer Reviewed Articles

“What You See Is What You Get”: Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic

08.12.14

Scott Saul

Announcements

Special Edition of Critical Inquiry

07.11.14

Edited by Leela Gandhi and Deborah L. Nelson

Peer Reviewed Articles

Remapping The Conversation: Urban Design and Industrial Reflexivity in Seventies San Francisco

06.22.14

Lawrence Webb

Peer Reviewed Articles

How to Lose Things: Elizabeth Bishop’s Child Mourning

09.23.13

Diana Fuss

Contemporaries Essays

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

08.17.13

Maggie Doherty