James Elkins
I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. All the art stuff is over on Academia, or on my website.
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Is There Anything Beyond Close Reading?
This is a review of an unusual book that proposes to define and explain close reading. It’s a embattled expression—abandoned in distance reading, critiqued in surface reading, revived by formalists, associated with New Criticism, instrument...
Why Reviewers are Perplexed by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's Your Name Here
Your Name Here has received about as comprehensive a reception as any literary or experimental fiction every gets in the U.S. It took an unusual path to that fame: it was posted, unpublished, on DeWitt’s website, and then “discovered” by th...
Michael Lentz's Schattenfroh and Innehaben
Introduction
Michael Lentz’s thousand-page novel Schattenfroh (roughly: Joyous Darkness, 2018) is now in English (2025). He also wrote a book called Innehaben: Schattenfroh und die Bilder (roughly: Possession: Schattenfroh and the Images,...
Reading the Unreadable Book: Aliocha Coll's Attila
It’s normal for reviewers on Amazon and Goodreads to be confused, annoyed, and sometimes hypnotized by books they can’t grasp:
I cannot rate this book. It is too perplexing and far-reaching and hallucinatory to begin to comprehend. It is...
A little-read long, complex postmodern book: Nabokov's version of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
In 2016 I became one of just a few people, I think, who have read all four volumes of Nabokov’s translation and notes on Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. Nabokov’s edition has been notorious from the moment it appeared in 1964, both because it prov...
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