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, Commonweal, the Harvard Review, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
He teaches courses on modernist poetry and prose, science fiction, the history of the lyric, Jane Austen, and many other topics.
More About Me
Great Books Recently Read
Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf; Kathryn Davis, Labrador; Joy Williams, State of Grace; Dan Beachy-Quick, Of Silence and Song; Assumption, Percival Everett; A. E. Stallings, Like; Hilton Als, The Women; Jeff Dolven, Senses of Style; Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad; Gerald Murnane, The Plains; V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River; Deborah Eisenberg, Your Duck Is My Duck; Kamila Shamsie, A God in Every Stone; Ilya Kaminsky, Dancing in Odessa
Publications
Selected Recent Reviews and Essays
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 Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto in the Boston Globe
On Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country in the Boston Globe
On Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room in Commonweal
On Joy Williams’s The Changeling in Commonweal
On Kei Miller’s Augustown 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 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