William H. Pritchard

Deconstructed

William H. Pritchard

Jeffrey Eugenides wants readers to think about how the marriage plot must complicate itself in the twentieth-century novel; but the book’s end seems too cleverly rigged and self-delighting. 

All Clogs

William H. Pritchard

Nicholson Baker’s Splendid Digressions

Poetryland

William H. Pritchard

Beautiful & Pointless, by the poet David Orr, is a short, lively guidebook that proposes to conduct the “general reader” about the landscape of contemporary poetry—what Orr refers to more than once as Poetryland. 

Seize This Book

William H. Pritchard

More than once in this collection of vigorous letters, Bellow apologizes for his unsatisfactory epistolary habits: “I’ve never enjoyed writing letters,” he tells Ralph Ellison. “It’s part of some disagreeable reticence in me—laziness; worse; something very nasty.”

A World of False Choices

William H. Pritchard

A review of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom

Getting Old

William H. Pritchard

Drawing Detroit

William H. Pritchard

He’s Got Rhythm

William H. Pritchard

That this critic, at age ninety, should have produced such an extraordinarily packed, balanced, and wise book gives us heartening evidence of his staying power as well as E. M. Forster’s.

Toil & Trouble

William H. Pritchard

Expert Counsel

William H. Pritchard

An American Voice

William H. Pritchard

Collected Poems, 1943-2004

William H. Pritchard

One Matchless Time by Jay Parini

William H. Pritchard

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