Links to the Kenyon Review Blog:



The Brains of Animals


Rimbaud the Prodigy



Why I am Inherently Evil


"The Authoress of the Odyssey"


The Nature of Authority


Video Games and Religion


"Deeply and Irreverently": How and What to Read


The Lost Books of Lord Byron


A Note on Sentimentality


Illustration of the Greek Concept of Fate


Esoteric and Exoteric: On Dickinson and Shakespeare


Epic Fail




In Praise of Agnosis



Believe What You Wish


About the Singularity


The Scripture Reads You



Life to the Image, Death to the Word


The Abundance: OneWorld (UK) Q & A Excerpt


"Western" and "Modern"


Shakespeare's Mystical Rhyme: On "The Phoenix and the Turtle"


The Alternate Bard: On Shakespeare's Narrative Poems


The Importance of Telling a Good Story


Language as an Artistic Medium


To Know or Not to Know: On Eating Meat


The Literary Critic Considered as an Illuminator of Manuscripts


Entertainment and Excess: The Great Literary Audiences


Now or Never: The Writer and the Age


Albert Speer and the Berghof Omen


Riddle me This


The Two Gandhis

Life Alone Lives Forever: Quest Stories and the Principle of Irreplaceability

Parricide/Regicide/Deicide: A Few Notes on The Brothers Karamazov

Three Tendencies in English Language Poetry

What is Truth?

Secret Credos of the Godless

On "Literary Fiction" and "Genre"

American Poetry Critics and Literary Memory

Constantly Protean: or, On Polytheism

Making it New while Keeping it Old

On Laurent Binet's HHhH

The Jack of All Modes

Riff on Goethe

Reason not the Need

Poetry and Entropy

The Reproductive Success of a Poem

The Reconquest of the Long Form

Victor Hugo and the Two Tolstoys

On Conceptual Poetry

James Bond and the Insufficiency of the World

The Two Unsurpassable Poems in the English Language

The Enduring Appeal of Jules Verne

The Unwritten Late Life Poetry of John Keats...

Notes on Capital-T Tragedy

Poetry, Prose, and Prosetry: Shakespeare's Hybrid Vigor

And Another Thing:

Matchup #1: O Rare Ben Jonson vs. a 15th-Century Welsh Poet

Reading List: Old-School Narrative Poems

Slits in the Cell Door

On Ruinability: "Momentary" by A. E. Stalllings

The Widening Circle: King, Gandhi, Christ

Two Philosophical Poets: On T. S. Eliot and Kay Ryan

And Shakespeare Begat Shakespeare

The Virtues of Bad Writing

The Art that Bears Repeating

Two Revisitings

Metaeuphoria: In Praise of Metaphor

Mythistory: or, Against Literalism

Hitchens as a Man of Letters

What's in a Name?

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Links to Essays Available Online:



George Steiner, Last of the Europeans

Her Seven Ingenious Masks

The Servant of Two Masters

Kepler's Snowflake

The Ludlum Identity