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.
His teaching interests are varied, ranging from modernist poetry and prose to science fiction to the history of the lyric to Jane Austen.
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Great Books Recently Read
A. E. Stallings, Like; 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; Jon McGregor, Reservoir 13; David Plante, The Pure Lover; Tarell McCraney, The Brothers Size; Darcey Steinke, Suicide Blonde; Joy Williams, The Changeling
Publications
Selected Recent Reviews and Essays
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
On Denis Johnson’s The Largesse of the Sea Maiden in the Boston Globe
On Julie Buntin’s Marlena in the San Francisco Chronicle
On Fanny Howe’s The Needle’s Eye in Commonweal
On Katie Kitamura’s A Separation in the San Francisco Chronicle
On Rachel Cusk’s Transit in the Boston Globe
On Marie Ponsot’s Collected Poems in Commonweal
Interviews
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