Anthony Paul Domestico
Associate Professor of Literature
Anthony Domestico is an associate professor of literature at Purchase College and the books columnist for Commonweal. His research focuses on modernism and its relationship to intellectual and religious history. His book, Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period, is available from Johns Hopkins University Press, and his essays have appeared in Religion and Literature, Literature and Theology, Christianity & Literature , the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and Persuasions.
He is also a working book critic, publishing reviews in, among other places, The Atlantic, Book Post, the Boston Globe, the Boston Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the Harvard Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Times Literary Supplement.
He teaches courses on modernism, the history of the lyric, science fiction, Jane Austen, Henry James, Flannery O’Connor, and many other topics.
More About Me
Great Books Recently Read
Emily Ogden, On Not Knowing; Ange Mlinko, Venice; Matthew Specktor, Always Crashing in the Same Car; Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System; Tessa Hadley, Late in the Day; Percival Everett, The Trees; Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone; Anita Brookner, Look at Me
Publications
Selected Recent Reviews and Essays
On Joy Williams’s Harrow in The Atlantic
On Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour in the Boston Globe
On Francisco Goldman’s Monkey Boy in Commonweal
On Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This in the Boston Globe
On Lawrence Joseph in Commonweal
On Fanny Howe’s Love and I in Commonweal
On Caleb Crain’s Overthrow in the Boston Globe
A remembrance of Ursula K. Le Guin
Interviews
With Rosanna Warren in Commonweal
With Garth Greenwell in Commonweal
With William Giraldi in Commonweal
With R. O. Kwon in Commonweal
With Peter Cole in Commonweal
With Jamie Quatro in Commonweal
With Carmen Maria Machado in Commonweal
With Alice McDermott in Commonweal
With Lawrence Joseph in Commonweal
With Francis Spufford in Commonweal
With Elif Batuman in Commonweal
With George Saunders in Commonweal
With C. E. Morgan in Commonweal
With David Means in Commonweal
With Christian Wiman in Commonweal