What does it mean for literary criticism to be true? How do we know when it’s false? In the most recent issue of Critical Inquiry, Jonathan Kramnick, a professor of...
We are delighted to announce the winner of the inaugural C19 Rising Scholar Prize. An initiative of the 2018-2020 C19 Executive Committee led by Meredith McGill, the prize...
DIRT: Laurie Taylor explores its material & symbolic meanings. Stephanie Newell, Professor of English at Yale University, traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban...
When I was a small child of, I think, about five or six, I staged a competition in my head, a contest to decide the greatest poem in the world. There were two finalists:...
Join acclaimed scholar and Shakespeare Association President Ayanna Thompson on Zoom for a conversation about issues of race and Shakespeare including the changing practices...
Amity Gaige’s Sea Wife and Claudia Rankine’s Just Us were listed in the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York...
In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter...
