Articles by Kevin Frazier
July 14, 2010
The Worth of the Wasted: Shakespeare and Bradley 7
A. C. Bradley is a better critic in full than he is in bits and pieces, and Shakespearean Tragedy continues to be an exciting book for anyone interested in literature.
April 20, 2010
Lionel Shriver: America’s Best Writer? 27
With her new novel, So Much for That, Lionel Shriver strengthens her already credible claim to the title of best living American writer. That’s okay. We were the same way with Faulkner and Poe. Nothing’s more American than not quite recognizing some of our most accomplished artists.
March 19, 2010
Nabokov’s Scraps: The Original of Laura 6
Dmitri Nabokov has taken some weirdly disproportionate hits for the aspect of the book that deserves the greatest praise.
January 14, 2010
The Marble Faun: Hawthorne Feeds on Shadows 1
Has there ever been another writer of dark, morbid, surrealistic fiction who is as warm and humane as Nathaniel Hawthorne?