Micah Mattix is an associate professor of English at Regent University and a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard. He edits the literary newsletter Prufrock.
Emily Dickinson’s Wisdom
Review: Cristanne Miller, ed., ‘Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them’
The Comedy Tour That Saved Mark Twain
Review: Richard Zacks, 'Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain’s Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour'
What Is Criticism?
Review: A.O. Scott, ‘Better Living Through Criticism: How To Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth’
Allen Ginsberg, Bore
Review: Wait Till I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems, by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Bill Morgan
Imagining the Weimar Republic
Review: 'Emblems of the Passing World: Poems after Photographs by August Sander,' by Adam Kirsch
Robert Frost, Family Man
Review: Lesley Lee Francis, ‘You Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost’
Did Conservatives Start Creative Writing Programs to Fight the Cold War?
Review: Eric Bennett, ‘Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War’