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Evan Kindley

Evan Kindley teaches at Pomona College and is the author, most recently, of Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture.

FictionOctober 14, 2019

Ben Lerner’s Quandary

The Topeka School captures the novelist at a crossroads between politics and aesthetics, fiction and poetry.

Evan Kindley
BiographyOctober 3, 2018

Who Owns Kafka?

The complicated legacy of the writer’s estate.

Evan Kindley
March 28, 2018

Coming to Terms With Ezra Pound’s Politics

What is the relationship between Pound’s fascism and his poetry?

Evan Kindley
Arts and EntertainmentMarch 2, 2018

The Surrealist Grace of Donald Glover’s ‘Atlanta’

At any given moment, it can feel like a family drama, a Southern Gothic horror story, and a sketch comedy.

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TelevisionFebruary 1, 2018

TV’s Dystopia Boom

The nightmarish future ain’t what it used to be.

Evan Kindley
TelevisionDecember 18, 2017

Errol Morris’s Paranoid Style

In Wormwood, the filmmaker reminds us that sometimes skepticism is the only thing we can trust.

Evan Kindley
FictionMarch 22, 2017

Elif Batuman’s Bold and Defiantly Imperfect novel

Elif Batuman’s debut novel reminds us that part of the novel’s genius that it made room for the extraneous and the unplanned

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EducationSeptember 29, 2016

Everything Is Interesting

Nicholson Baker goes back to school.

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