Elizabeth Bishop and "The New Yorker": The Complete Correspondence. Edited by Joelle Biele. (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011. Pp. lxii, 422. $35.00.)

2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 542-544
Author(s):  
Celeste Goodridge
2020 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Derritt Mason

This book’s conclusion reiterates the argument that queer YA is an anxious genre that perpetually rehearses a nervous uncertainty about its own constitution. Mason steps back to consider queer YA’s relationship to children’s literature more broadly, entering the discussion through a concept developed in Beverley Lyon Clark’s Kiddie Lit: the “anxiety of immaturity” that circulates around and within children’s literature and its criticism. Mason revisits the “Great YA Debate” of 2014, which followed a Slate piece by Ruth Graham entitled “Adults Should Be Embarrassed to Read Young Adult Books.” This debate included high profile pieces by Christopher Beha and A.O. Scott in The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, both of which evince a profound ambivalence about whether or not adults should be reading young adult literature. These conversations, Mason concludes, illustrate how young adult literature continues to be an unceasing source of adult anxiety.


adComunica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Maria Perez Diaz

En 1967 y como respuesta a las críticas sobre sus reportajes del juicio en Jerusalén contra Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt publicó en las páginas de The New Yorker un ensayo titulado «Verdad y Política». Cuatro años después, y tras la filtración de los papeles del Pentágono, firmó en The New York Review of Books un ensayo hermano titulado «La mentira en la política». El presente artículo toma como punto de partida dichos trabajos para discutir la actualidad del pensamiento arendtiano en relación con el actual fenómeno de la posverdad. A través de una metodología histórico-hermenéutica fundamentada en una amplia revisión documental tanto de fuentes primarias como secundarias, el objetivo del presente artículo será analizar y valorar el concepto de defactualization, acuñado por la pensadora alemana con motivo de la publicación de los papeles del Pentágono para hacer referencia al enmascaramiento de la realidad, como un proto-concepto con el que Hannah Arendt ya nombró el fenómeno que hoy conocemos como posverdad, incluso antes de que el propio término apareciera. Partiendo de esa base, se examinan tres características que se encuentran tanto en las reflexiones de la pensadora alemana durante el pasado siglo como en las investigaciones actuales en torno a la posverdad: la irrelevancia de la verdad factual, la pérdida de confianza de los ciudadanos en la política, y la destrucción de la esfera pública; una ruptura del necesario espacio público de debate político, de contraste de ideas y de generación de acuerdos y consensos como consecuencia de todo lo anterior.


Author(s):  
Paul Muldoon

This chapter offers a close reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Armadillo’ and Robert Lowell’s ‘Skunk Hour’ in the light of the recently published letters between the two poets, as well as Bishop’s correspondence with The New Yorker. It looks at letters as ‘the other life that [a poem] might have had’ and a poem as ‘the other life that [letters’ might have had’, concluding that the relationship between Lowell and Bishop was often less benign than we’ve led ourselves to believe.


2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-55
Author(s):  
Sarah Kessler

Abby McEnany’s new comedy series Work in Progress (Showtime) and Hannah Gadsby’s recent standup specials Nanette and Douglas (Netflix) evoke “butch middlebrow,” a contemporary aesthetic and affective sensibility distinguished by the cozy reception it enjoys among straight, white, liberal viewers and critics. McEnany’s and Gadsby’s works have occasioned praise from cosmopolitan gatekeepers like the New York Times and the New Yorker for their self-aware brands of comedy rooted in unvarnished portrayals of butch trauma. Critics ritually insist on the implausibility of Gadsby’s and McEnany’s success, but the popularity of these queer creators’ offerings is not as unlikely as so often presumed. Indeed, the middlebrow butch’s alleged improbability does not render her cultural accolades improbable; it may even ensure them, allowing a new canon of butch respectability to emerge in the light shed by the beacons of aspirational culture.


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