2017
“Attracted in dislike: A soap-opera account of a ‘New York Intellectual’,” A review of The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling by Natalie Robins
Times Literary Supplement, May 19, 2017.
“The Codebreaker: On the critical legacy of William Empson”
Originally published in The Weekly Standard April 10, 2017.
2016
On The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
Literary Matters 9:2.
2015
“The Letters of T. S. Eliot, vols 3 and 4”
Battersea Review, 1, no. 4 (2015)
“The Strange Voice of Edgar Allen Poe” Jerome McGann, THE POET EDGAR ALLEN POE: ALIEN ANGEL
TLS, Feb. 6, 2015, p. 7.
“Eliot on the Poetry of his Contemporaries”
Time Present: The Newsletter of the TS Eliot Society, 85 (Spring 2015), 1, 4-5.
“Gentleman of Letters: The Hits and Misses of James Laughlin”
THE WEEKLY STANDARD, 5 Jan. 2015, 20, No. 17.
2014
Daniel Levin Becker, Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature
Common Knowledge, 20: 2 (2014), 368-69.
“You’ve Got Mail, Ray Johnson’s Not Nothing and The Paper Snake”
TLS August 1, 2014
The Long Night (Karl Krauss, Trans. Michael Russell)
Books of the Year, TLS, Nov. 28, 2014, p. 13
2012
“I remember vanilla pudding,” The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard and The Nancy Book
TLS August 2012.
The Last Waltz: Gregor Von Rezzori and the Final Days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Bookforum February/March 2012.
Spare, Enigmatic Lorine Niedecker
TLS February 1, 2012.
The Letters of T.S. Eliot Volumes 1 & 2
Bookforum (Dec/Jen 2012)
2009
The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol. 1 1929-1940
Bookforum 16, no. 2 (June-August 2009)
2008
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery.
Bookforum 14 no 4 (Dec/Jan 2008)
Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism.
Modernism/Modernity, 15, 2 (2008)
Personally Speaking: Martin Amis. THE SECOND PLANE: September 11: 2001-2007.
Times Literary Supplement, 14 Feb. 2008, 3-5.
Over the Last Limit. Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky. Edited by Michael Almereyda.
Boston Review, 33, no. 4 (July/August 2008), 45-47.
Times Literary Supplement. July 9, 2008: 11-12.
2006
Party in the Blitz: The English Years. By Elias Canetti.
Bookforum, Dec/Jan 2006.
Bookforum, 13-2 (June-September 2006): 20-21.
2005
“Dreams of Weeds”: THE DANCERS INHERIT THE PARTY. Early stories, plays and poems. Ian Hamilton Finlay, edited by Ken Cockburn.
Times Literary Supplement, April 29, 2005, p. 26.
2004
Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience by Jessica Feldman
ELT, 47, 1: 2004: 90-94.
The Return of Robert Lowell
Parnassus 27, no. 1 and 2,(Winter, 2004): 76-102.
The Cubist Painters. Guillaume Apollinaire
Translated, with commentary, by Peter Read.
Modernism/Modernity, 11, no. 3 (2004): 282-87.
2003
The Language of New Media By Lev Manovich
Published in Common Knowledge 9. 2, 2003
Review of Susan Howe, Susan Bee, Bed Hangings
Published in Common Knowledge 9:2 (2003): 341-42.
2002
“The Rescue of the Singular,” George Oppen’s New Collected Poems
CL, 43, no. 2 (September 2002): 560-69.
“The Hell Below Brooklyn Bridge,” review of Clive Fisher, Hart Crane
TLS August 30, 2002, p. 9 (full page).
2001
Still Time for Surprises: John Ashbery’s Recent Books
Thumbscrew, 18 (Spring 2001): 46-48.
1999
John Ashbery, Girls on the Run: A Poem
Stand, December 1999, 13-16.
Michel Delville, The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries Of Genre.
Prose Poem, 8 (Summer 1999), pp. 134-38.
1998
“Paper Chase”: The Picasso Papers, by Rosalind Krauss.
(see also Letter to the Editor – Response to Yves Alain Bois)
Bookforum, April 1998, pp. 37, 40. And see Letter to the Editor Column in May Issue, response to Yves Alain Bois.
“Triplespace” (on Hank Lazer)
Virginia Quarterly Review, (Spring 1998). 381-90.
“To Wonder Without Becoming Dry.” Artificial Heart by Peter Gizzi. Burning Deck.
Boston Book Review, 5-6 (August 1998): 34-35.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
The Witch of Truth (Laura Riding)
Parnassus, 23. No. 1 (1998): 334-53.
FASCISM’S OTHER. Le Livre noir du communisme: Crimes, terreur, répression
American Book Review, 20.1 (November/December 1998): 16-17.
1997
The Coming of Age of Language Poetry. Out of Everywhere by Maggie O’Sullivan. The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman.
Contemporary Literature 28 (Sept. 1997), pp. 558-68.
Textual Practice, Volume 11, Issue 1 Spring 1997 , pages 133 – 142.
Yeats’s Political Identities: Selected Essays
ANQ 10, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 53-55.
1996
Bertrand Russell, The Spirit of Solitude
Washington Times, 20 Oct. 1996, B7-8.
The Granite Butterfly by Parker Tyler
William Carlos Williams Review, 22, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 103-11.
The Mina Loy Mysteries
American Book Review, 18, no. 1 (Oct-Nov. 1996): 16-17, 26.
Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to García Márquez
Electronic Book Review 4 (Winter 1996/97).
Looking for The Real Carl Rakosi: Collecteds and Selecteds
Journal of American Studies, 30 (1996): 2, 271-283.
Forbidden Entries. By John Yau.
Boston Review, 22, 3-4 (Summer 1997): 39-41.
(review of Steve McCaffery, The Cheat of Words, Tom Raworth, Clean and Well Lit, Susan Howe, Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-79, Vincent Bugliosi, Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson got away with Murder)
Sulfur #39 Fall 1996): 139-51.
1995
Songs in Flight, The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann
Edited and translated by Peter Filkins.
ALCOOLS. Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire
Translated by Donald Revell. from Boston Review
Anna Akhmatova in Translation
PN Review 163 (May-June 2005): 28-35.
