Ryan Ruby

Ryan Ruby is the author of The Zero and the One: A Novel. The recipient of the 2023 SIlvers Prize for Literary Criticism, his essays and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, New Left Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He lives in Berlin.

PoetryJanuary 19, 2023

A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity

In a career spanning collection This Afterlife, the poet opens up a dialogue about the history of form and the rich possibilities of the practice’s oldest modes of expression.

Ryan Ruby
FictionJune 29, 2022

Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick”

Pierre Senges’s avant-garde retelling of Melville’s great work asks us what the limits of the novel are.

Ryan Ruby
PoetryJanuary 27, 2022

The Sublime Ironies of John Ashbery

Does his first posthumous collection, Parallel Movement of the Hands, help answer the riddle of his poetic project?

Ryan Ruby

Ryan Ruby

PoetryJanuary 19, 2023

A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity

In a career spanning collection This Afterlife, the poet opens up a dialogue about the history of form and the rich possibilities of the practice’s oldest modes of expression.

Ryan Ruby

FictionJune 29, 2022

Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick”

Pierre Senges’s avant-garde retelling of Melville’s great work asks us what the limits of the novel are.

Ryan Ruby

PoetryJanuary 27, 2022

The Sublime Ironies of John Ashbery

Does his first posthumous collection, Parallel Movement of the Hands, help answer the riddle of his poetic project?

Ryan Ruby

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PoetryJanuary 19, 2023

In a career spanning collection This Afterlife, the poet opens up a dialogue about the history of form and the rich possibilities of the practice’s oldest modes of expression.

FictionJune 29, 2022

Pierre Senges’s avant-garde retelling of Melville’s great work asks us what the limits of the novel are.

PoetryJanuary 27, 2022

Does his first posthumous collection, Parallel Movement of the Hands, help answer the riddle of his poetic project?