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 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
Carlo Rotella, The World Is Always Coming to an End; Jericho Brown, The Tradition; Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec; Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing; Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism; Jean Stafford, The Mountain Lion; Sarah Broom, The Yellow House; Carl Phillips, The Art of Daring; Yiyun Li, The Vagrants
Publications
Selected Recent Reviews and Essays
On Fanny Howe’s Love and I in Commonweal
On Caleb Crain’s Overthrow in the Boston Globe
On Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian in the Boston Globe
On Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous in Commonweal
On Kathryn Davis’s The Silk Road in the Boston Globe
On A. E. Stallings’s Like in Commonweal
On Micheal O’Siadhail’s Five Quintets in Commonweal
On Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black in the Boston Globe
On Kate Atkinson’s Transcription in the Boston Globe
On Alan Holinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair in the Boston Globe
On Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel in the Boston Globe
A remembrance of Ursula K. Le Guin
Interviews
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