Charles Holdefer
Book reviews
2020
- review of All the Useless Things are
Mine by Thomas Walton in Dactyl Review
- review of This Is How He Learned to
Love by Randall Brown in Dactyl Review
2019
– review of Flashlight Girls Run by
Stephanie Dickinson in Dactyl Review
2018
– review of Today is the Day That Will
Matter by Debra Di Blasi in The Collagist
– review of The Surprising Place by
Malinda McCollum in Dactyl Review
– review of Lovepain by Curtis Smith in
The Collagist
– review of Everyone Was There by
Anthony Varallo in The Los Angeles
Review
– review of The Magician's Handbook by
Grant Clauser in Atticus Review
2017
– review of George Saunders: Critical
Essays by Philip Coleman and Steve
Gronert Ellerhoff, eds., in Short Fiction in
Theory and Practice
– review of Errata by Jacob Smullyan in
Dactyl Review
– review of Schoolhouse: Lessons on
Love & Landscape by Marc Niesen in
Entropy
2016
– review of King Lear, Old Vic Theatre,
London, Deborah Warner, dir., in
Shakespeare en devenir
– review of Kurt Vonnegut’s
Slaughterhouse-Five: Bookmarked by
Curtis Smith in Entropy
– review of Concrete Carnival by Danner
Darcleight in The Collagist
– review of Morever by Aaron Anstett in
Entropy
2015
– review of Soul External: Rediscovering
the Great Blue Heron by Steve Semken in
New York Journal of Books
– review of Her 37th Year: An Index by
Suzanne Scanlon in Dactyl Review
2014
– review of The Inevitable June by Bob
Schofield in Dactyl Review
– review of The Art of Fielding by Chad
Harbach in Dactyl Review
2013
– review of Tenth of December by George
Saunders in New York Journal of Books
– review of Road to Nowhere by Józef
Mackiewicz in Dactyl Review
– review of King Lear, Abbey Theatre,
Dublin, Selina Cartmell, dir., in
Shakespeare en devenir
– review of The Miniature Wife and Other
Stories by Manuel Gonzales in New York
Journal of Books
– review of Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead, American Players
Theatre, Spring Green, James Bohnen,
dir., in Shakespeare en devenir
2012
– review of Home by Toni Morrison in
New York Journal of Books
– review of Lost Memory of Skin by
Russell Banks in New York Journal of
Books
– review of Stripped by Nicole Monaghan,
ed., in Dactyl Review
– interview about The Grievers with Marc
Schuster
2011
– review of Montecore: The Silence of the
Tiger by Jonas Hassen Khemiri in New
York Journal of Books
– review of We All Fall Down by Nic Sheff
in New York Journal of Books
– review of The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
in Dactyl Review
– review of You Deserve Nothing by
Alexander Maksik in New York Journal of
Books
– review of The Architect of Flowers by
William Lychack in New York Journal of
Books
– review of The Double Life of Alfred
Buber by David Schmahmann in Dactyl
Review
– review of Desdemona, Royal Flemish
Theatre, Peter Sellars, dir., in
Shakespeare en devenir
2010
– review of King Lear, Royal Shakespeare
Company, London, Trevor Nunn, dir., in
Shakespeare en devenir
– review of Extraordinary Renditions by
Andrew Ervin in The Collagist
– review of How To Survive a Natural
Disaster by Margaret Hawkins in Dactyl
Review
– review of King John, Brussels
Shakespeare Society, dir. by Stephen
Challens, in Shakespeare en devenir
– review of Vestments by John
Reimringer in Dactyl Review
– review of Exploration of King Lear,
Poitiers, Graeme Watson, dir., in
Shakespeare en devenir
– review of Love and Summer by William
Trevor in Dactyl Review
2009
– review of The Cambridge Introduction
to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin
in Cercles
2008
– review of Sound + Noise by Curtis
Smith in Cercles
2007
– review of Performing Glam Rock by
Philip Auslander in Cercles
– review of The Art of Life by Paul Durcan
in Cercles
– review of A Woman Milking by Marcia
Slatkin in Cercles
2006
– review of Mr. Famous by Carol Wolper
in Cercles
– review of The Last Titan A Life of
Theodore Dreiser by Jerome Loving in
Cercles
2005
– review of Don’t Ask Me What I Mean:
Poets in Their Own Words by Clare
Brown and Don Paterson, eds.,
in Cercles
On George Saunders
"Machines at Work and Play:
George Saunders and
Pastoral Place," in Poetics
and Politics of Place in
Pastoral," Bénédicte
Chorier-Fryd, Charles
Holdefer and Thomas Pughe,
eds., Bern, Switzerland, Peter
Lang, 2015.
"Still Kicking: George
Saunders and 'Shadow
Realism,'" Short Fiction in
Theory and Practice,
December 2012.
Review of Tenth of
December, New York Journal
of Books
Review of George Saunders:
Critical Essays, Philip
Coleman and Steve Gronert
Ellerhoff, eds.
On teaching English in
France
From La Revue française
d'études américaines
Other Criticism
"Parody in Philip Larkin: A
Trick Which Dispels Fear" in
Euphony Journal
"Camping With Larkin" from
Philip Larkin and the Poetics
of Resistance
Philip Larkin and the Poetics
of Resistance
co-edited with Andrew McKeown
ISBN 2-7475-9779-2
Paris, L'Harmattan, 2006
"A valuable contribution to the further
development of Larkin studies"
The European English Messenger
"Highly original"
Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad
Complutense
DESCRIPTION:
"I'm an agnostic," the British poet
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) used to say,
"an Anglican agnostic, of course."
What Larkin is resisting in his
writings, how this is a achieved, and
why his texts tend to such complex
ends, are among the questions
explored by the thirteen specialists in
this first thematically-unified volume
of Larkin scholarship published in
France.
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