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, The Baffler, Book Post, the New York Review of Books, and the Washington Post, among many other places.
He teaches courses on modernism, the history of the lyric, science fiction, Jane Austen, Henry James, Flannery O’Connor, and many other topics.
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Great Books Recently Read
Jane Austen, Emma; Rosanna Warren, Hindsight; Helen Garner, The Season; Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington; Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures; Anthony Giardina, Remember This
Publications
Selected Recent Reviews and Essays
On Willard Spiegelman’s Nothing Stays Put in the New York Review of Books
On Susan Choi’s Flashlight for Book Post
On Michael Nott’s Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life in The Baffler
On Declan Ryan’s Crisis Actor in Commonweal
On Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans in Commonweal
On Christian Wiman’s Zero at the Bone in the Washington Post
On Brigitta Olubas’s Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life in The Baffler
On Robert Crawford’s Eliot After The Waste Land in The Baffler
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 Philip Metres in Commonweal
With Ange Mlinko in Commonweal
With Rosanna Warren in Commonweal
With Garth Greenwell in Commonweal
With R. O. Kwon 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