Criticism, Volume 65, Number 4, Fall 2023

Criticism provides a forum for current scholarship on literature, media, music and visual culture. A place for rigorous theoretical and critical debate as well as formal and methodological self-reflexivity and experimentation, Criticism aims to present contemporary thought at its most vital.

Criticism Volume 65, Number 4, Fall 2023

Spaces of Mind in the American Midcentury: The Buddhist Poetics of Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, and Joanne Kyger
Sara E. Laws

Critique and Metafiction in John Edgar Wideman’s Fanon: A Novel
Frida Beckman

In the Midst of Apocalypse: Disruption, Repossession, and Remembrance in W. E. B. Du Bois’s “The Comet”
Justin Chandler

War and Temporality: Walter Benjamin’s Redemptive Allegory and William Faulkner’s A Fable
Tiao Wang

Book Reviews

Robert T. Tally Jr. on Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization by Fredric Jameson

Domale Dube on Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Complex Imaginings of Justice by Maya Hislop

Pieter Vermeulen on Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel