troy jollimore: criticism
Essays, Reviews,
Interviews:
Review of Kazuo
Ishiguro, Nocturnes: Five Stories of
Music and Nightfall.
LA Times, September 20,
2009. READ
“On
‘The Solipsist.’”
Review of Simon
Keller, The Limits of Loyalty.
Philosophy in
Review, June 2009.
Review of Robert
Wright, The Evolution of God.
Truthdig.com, June 19, 2009 READ
Review of John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Will
Change the World.
Truthdig.com, April 2, 2009. READ
Review of Steven
Johnson, The Invention of Air.
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, January 9, 2009. READ
“Witty Poetry
Remembers the Dead—and Their Food.”
Review of Kevin Young, Dear Darkness. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, October 31,
2008. READ
Interview
with Richard Dawkins.
The Believer, No. 56, September 2008. (See selection here.)
On
Don DeLillo’s Libra.
Critical Mass: The National Book
“Greer Returns
with Story of a Marriage.”
Review of Andrew Sean Greer, Story of a Marriage. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, May 18, 2008. READ
Review of Martin
Amis, The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and
Boredom.
Truthdig.com, April 24, 2008. READ
“Beach Reading:
The Pleasures of Robert Hass’s Criticism.”
Poetry Foundation website, posted January 2008. READ
“Ashbery’s Anthology ‘Notes from the Air’ Delivers, Despite
Himself.’
Review of John Ashbery, Notes from the Air. San Francisco
Chronicle Book Review, December 2, 2007. READ
“Dark Matters.”
Essay.
“My Mind’s Not Right.”
(On “Skunk Hour” by Robert Lowell.) Poetry
Foundation website, posted August 2007. READ
“Are You There,
God? Didn’t Think So.”
Review of Christopher Hitchens, God
is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. San
Francisco Chronicle Book Review, May 13, 2007. READ
“Hey Kids!
Madison Avenue Wants You!”
Review of Benjamin Barber, Consumed:
How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole.
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, April 1, 2007. READ
“Poet’s Truths
Evolve Through Collection of Works.”
Review of W. S. Di Piero, Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems.San Francisco Chronicle Book
Review, March 4, 2007. READ
“Hubris of
Empire”
Review of Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis:
The Last Days of the American Republic.San Francisco Chronicle Book
Review, February 11, 2007. READ
“Better Living Without God?”
Review of Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, and
E.O. Wilson, The Creation: An Appeal to
Save Life on Earth. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, October 15,
2006. READ
“Straight
Dope on LSD Guru Timothy Leary.”
Review of Robert
Greenfield, Timothy Leary: A Biography. San Francisco Chronicle Book
Review, July 9, 2006. READ
“Anatomy
of a Meal.”
Review of Michael
Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History
of Four Meals. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, April 9, 2006. READ
“How ‘Go Ask
Review of Philip
Jenkins, Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of
Eighties
“Desire for
Religion Grows Out of Human Experience.”
Review of Daniel
Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. San
Francisco Chronicle Book Review, February 5, 2006. READ
“Contradictions
Make the Philosopher.”
Review of Leo
Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius. San Francisco
Chronicle Book Review, November 13, 2005.
READ
“How to Mock Business
Without Really Trying.”
Review
of Corinne Maier, Bonjour Laziness. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, June 5, 2005. READ
“Think You Know
Kafka? Think Again.”
Review of Roberto Calasso, K. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review,
February 20, 2005. READ
“How Societies
Commit Suicide.”
Review of Jared
Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. San
Francisco Chronicle Book Review, January 9, 2005. READ
“Thinking
About the Mind.”
Review of John
Searle, Mind: A Brief Introduction. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review,
December 19, 2004. READ
“The Ground From Which a Poem Forms.”
Review
of Helen Vendler, Poets Thinking. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, October
10, 2004. READ
“Snyder
Faces Loss Head-On.”
Review
of Gary Snyder, Danger on Peaks. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, September 5, 2004. READ
“Poets’ New Ideas
Seem Awfully Familiar.”
Review of Jeff
Clark, Music and Suicide, and
“A Case for
Inserting Morality Into the Law.”
Review of Thane
Rosenbaum, The Myth of Moral Justice: Why
Our Legal System Fails to do What’s Right. San Francisco Chronicle Book
Review, May 2, 2004. READ
“Circling
Spiritual Issues.”
Review of Karen
Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb
Out of Darkness. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, March 14, 2004. READ
“Measuring
Out the Days of Carl Jung, Bit by Bit.”
Review of Dierdre Bair, Jung: A Biography. San Francisco
Chronicle Book Review, December 7, 2003. READ
Review
of E.L. Doctorow, Reporting the Universe. San Francisco Chronicle
Book Review (Reviews in Brief), June 3, 2003.
“Belly,
Lungs, Liver and All.”
Review of The
Inferno of Dante Alighieri, translated by Ciaran Carson. San Francisco
Chronicle Book Review, March 2, 2003. READ
Review of Marcus Danesi, The Puzzle Instinct. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review (Reviews in Brief), December 15, 2002.
“The
Shallow Behaviour of a Deep Thinker.”
Review of Ray Monk, Bertrand
Russell: The Ghost of Madness. National Post (
“Freedom
of Association.”
Review of Paul
Muldoon, To
“Is This Art, or
What?”
Review of Arthur Danto,
The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a
Pluralistic Art World.
"A
History Free from Frameworks."
Review of Jacques
Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Cultural History. National
Post (
"Attack
of the Woolly Metaphysics."
Review of Jed Perl, Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in
Crisis.
"The Truth About Truth."
Review
of Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope.
"Songs of Ourselves."
Review of Robert Pinsky and Maggie
Dietz, ed., Americans’ Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology.
"What Do You Do
With A Monster?"
Review
of Umberto Eco, Kant and the Platypus.
"An
Act of Folly."
Review
of Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt.
"Shams
and Delusions."
Review
of Wendy Kaminer, Sleeping
With Extra-Terrestrials.
"The
Real Bird."
Review
of Michael Longley, Selected Poems.
“A
Restoration Drama."
Review of C.K. Williams, Repair.
Troy Jollimore
Department of Philosophy
tjollimore [at] csuchico.edu