ESSAYS, etc.

The links below (sans one) are to pdf documents.




“The Advent,” Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Vol. IV, No. 1, “New Formalism of/on The Contemporary” (spring 2012): 87-92. An excerpt from my novel The Abdication (New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2012).

“Circulus Vitiosus Diabolus: On Temporality and Nihilism in Satantango,” Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Vol. IV, No. 1, “New Formalism of/on The Contemporary” (spring 2012): 73-86.

"Exigent Demands: Discipleship Examined," Rainer J. Hanshe in conversation with Audrey Gray, The Brooklyn Rail (June 2011): 65. An interview.

"From the Choir Invisible to the Cosmos: James Purdy or the Return of an Unseen Star," Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. VI, No. 1 (March 2011): 11-28. An introduction to a special issue devoted to James Purdy on the second anniversary of his death.

"Ready All the Time Like Gunpowder: An Interview with Richard Hundley," Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. VI, No. 1 (March 2011): 159-185.

"The Threat to Artistic Freedom in Hungary," Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Special Section (February 2011). Co-written with Mark Daniel Cohen.

"The Necessity of Illusion," introduction to Yunus Tuncel, Towards a Genealogy of Spectacle (Roskilde, Denmark: EyeCorner Press, 2011), 11-33.

"Renati the King: A Phantasmagoric Tragi-Comedy," introduction to Gian DiDonna, Renati the King: A Play (Roskilde, Denmark: EyeCorner Press, 2010), 11-18.

"Agonistic Ethics: On the Hospitality of Warriors," presented at The Chances of Cultural Differences – the Ethics, Poetics and Politics of Hospitality, Pécs Cultural Centre and the Sensus for Advanced Studies, Pécs Hungary (November 2010).

"Transfiguring Melancholy," Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. V, No. 2 (November 2010): 113-117. An  introduction to Charlotte Mandell's translation of Jean Starobinski's Melancholy in the Mirror: Three Readings of Baudelaire.

The Muffled Lips of Apollo,” Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. V, No. 1 (Spring 2010): 93. A poem.

Cruelty, Beauty, and the Tragic Art of Howard Barker: On the occasion of theatre minima and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center’s Celebration,” Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. V, No. 1 (Spring 2010): 11-16. An introduction to a special section on Howard Barker.

Not a bad metaphysics, eh? An interview with Turkish poet and translator Oruç Aruoba,” The Agonist, Vol. III, No. 1 (Spring 2010): 28-47. Conducted with Yunus Tuncel.



Introduction to Katja Brunkhorst, “Abandoned on the Mountains of the Heart,” Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. IV, No. 9 (April 2009): 85-89.

"The Gospel of a Heretic: The Sacred Atheism of Pier Paolo Pasolini," Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. III, No. 2 (April 2008). An interview with Roberto Chiesi. In Italian.

"Stoic Nihilism & the Beauty of Oblivion: A Meditation on Beckett's Happy Days," Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. III, No. 1 (February 2008).

"Wrestling with Nature: The Obscuring Mirror & the Dream of True Perception: Van Gogh and Expressionism," Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. II, No. 3 (October 2007).

"Writing the Apocalypse: Voicing Silence Through Time: Tadeusz Rózewicz, new poems," Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. II, No. 2 (June 2007).

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