Jonathan Russell Clark

Jonathan Russell Clark is a literary critic and the author of An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom (Fiction Advocate, 2018). His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Vulture, San Francisco Chronicle, the Atlantic, The Believer, Tin House, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and numerous others. He also produces the podcast The Spine with Gail Marie.

Georgia Review Archive for Jonathan Russell Clark

on Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp by Józef Czapski, translated from the French by Eric Karpeles

in Spring 2019

on The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes

in Winter 2016

Julian Barnes’s 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters includes an essayistic meditation on love in which he brilliantly considers the meanings and ramifications of history and… read more

on E. E. Cummings: A Life by Susan Cheever

in Fall 2014

Just Who Is This Oscar Wilde Person, Anyway? (on David M. Friedman’s Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity; Roy Morris Jr.’s Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America; & Antony Edmonds’ Oscar Wilde’s Scandalous Summer: The 1894 Worthing Holiday and the Aftermath)

in Summer 2015

on The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham

in Spring 2015

When I studied abroad at Oxford as an undergraduate, I took a course on Ulysses. I ’d always wanted to read it, but I felt inadequate to its genius, for the… read more