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AGNI Essays by Year

The links below take you to an index of all essays published in each given year:


2008 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven In the Commissaries of Hell AGNI 67
Gidding, Josh On Not Being Proust: An Essay in Literary Failure AGNI 67
Gorham, Sarah Darling Amanita AGNI 67
Groom, Kelle How to Make a Shoe AGNI 67
Guida, James Marbles AGNI 67
Kupperman, Kim Dana See Me Slant: Poetry Considers Her Mother
Lahiri, Jhumpa Alberto de Lacerda: A Remembrance AGNI 67
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: The Evil of Banality AGNI 67
Merullo, Roland Visions of Gerard AGNI 67
Pierce, William Crucibles: The Orchestration of Surprise AGNI 67
Rivard, David A Note on Steven Berg’s Rimbaud: “. . . still unilluminated I . . . AGNI 67


2007 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven The Thinker in the Garden AGNI 65
Birkerts, Sven The Walk AGNI 66
Diel, Scott 69° North, 33° East: Running from the Russians AGNI 66
Ifland, Alta Elegy for a Fabulous World AGNI 66
Karp, Jacqueline An Exchange of History Lessons
Karp, Jacqueline A Tale of Two Paintings: Orhan Pamuk and Turkey’s Troubled Identity
McCullough, Ashley Trust and the Cowboy
Meads, Kat On Reading and Rereading The Mind of the South in No Place Southern
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Daytripping Chatila AGNI 66
Miller, Ben The Butter Mint Gun AGNI 66
Miller, Brenda Secret Machine
Mockett, Marie Mutsuki Letters from a Japanese Crematorium AGNI 65
O’Connor, Stephen Milosz’s Choice: An Investigation of Sentimentality AGNI 66
Pearson, Joseph Mexico in Ruins
Pierce, William Crucibles: “Let Us Imagine” AGNI 65
Purpura, Lia The Lustres AGNI 65
Schuette-Hoffman, Allison Risk Assessment
Shrayer, Maxim D. Sarda Resarta
Solow, Harrison Bendithion AGNI 66
Tillinghast, Richard from Istanbul in Winter AGNI 65
Tillinghast, Richard from Istanbul in Winter: Hagia Sophia, The Call to Prayer, Rumi AGNI 65
Tillinghast, Richard Water Music
Trubek, Anne On Finally Seeing the Polish Rider at the Frick Museum
Tyree, J. M. Paterson and Paterson (and Jersey and America)
Walker, Nicole Dissociation (The Natural Order)
Wildgen, Michelle Aphrodisiacs


2006 Essays


Author Title Published
Bardes, Charles, M.D. ante mortem
Bardes, Charles, M.D. borrowed intimacy
Bardes, Charles, M.D. dark room
Bardes, Charles, M.D. don’t
Bardes, Charles, M.D. dove sono
Bardes, Charles, M.D. ED
Bardes, Charles, M.D. enough music
Bardes, Charles, M.D. heroic measures
Bardes, Charles, M.D. perfect
Bardes, Charles, M.D. pill
Bardes, Charles, M.D. plenty of fluids
Bardes, Charles, M.D. reading a patient
Bardes, Charles, M.D. Seven essays from The Double Serpent: Subtexts in Medicine: caduceus, diseasification, morphine—by way of an explanation, radical mastectomy, sulfa, urinalysis, wound AGNI 63
Bardes, Charles, M.D. system support
Birkerts, Sven An Appreciation of Charles Bardes, M.D.
Birkerts, Sven Finding Traction AGNI 63
Birkerts, Sven The Hive Life AGNI 64
Brouwer, Joel Havana City Limits AGNI 64
Gausby, Christopher from Philosophic Journal AGNI 63
Gray, Robert from Reading My Father
Hoover, Joe Bus
Johnson-Miller, Betsy What Gets Buried
Keizer, Garret Florence of Paterson AGNI 64
Larsen, Lance My Brother, Floating
Lenney, Dinah Deal
Livaccari, Christopher Of Emptiness, Nothingness, and Asymptotic Freedom AGNI 63
Lyons, Jacqueline A Sort of a Map
Maris, Kathryn Introduction to A Portfolio of British and Irish Poems AGNI 64
Marshall, Alexandra At Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: On the Failures of Victory AGNI 64
Miller, A. P. Blessing the New Moon AGNI 63
Miller, Ben A Study in Sequins AGNI 63
Pierce, William Crucibles: Report on a Report AGNI 64
Purpura, Lia Being of Two Minds AGNI 64
Rawlings, Wendy Spectacular Mistakes AGNI 64
Riordan, Maurice Introduction to A Portfolio of British and Irish Poems AGNI 64
Schwabe, Liesl Mr. Dangerous and Mumtaz
Tevis, Joni Chihuahua Desert Love Song
Tyree, J.M. Displeasures of Empire, or An American Werewolf in Finsbury Park
Wickersham, Joan An Attempt at a Biographical Essay AGNI 63


2005 Essays


Author Title Published
Beckman, Joshua Please Do Us a Favor AGNI 61
Birkerts, Sven As Above: Saul Bellow AGNI 62
Birkerts, Sven The Ideal Reader AGNI 61
Burris, Sidney Past Reason Hunted, or Living with Sonnet 129 AGNI 62
Chiasson, Dan One Kind of Everything AGNI 62
Collins, Myfanwy Tobacco Road
Comer, Diane The Ore of Longing AGNI 62
Danoff, Douglas To the New World and Back
Davidson, Deborah Considering Language AGNI 61
Duffin, K. E. Bronx AGNI 61
Duffin, K. E. Marostica AGNI 61
Duffin, K. E. Palladio AGNI 61
Kemperman, Kerrie What I Know, What I Don’t
Keplinger, David Milosz, Simic, and the Mask of the Prodigal
Leach, Dirk Popeye Hemingway
Mathison, Neil Cross Threaded
Mehlman, Jeffrey Kandahar: A Memoir AGNI 61
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: An Open Letter to My Students About Captain Violin, Saul Bellow, the War, and the Art of Fiction AGNI 62
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Style and Time AGNI 61
Michelson, Joan The Last Haircut
Miller, Ben Romancing the Dankerts AGNI 61
Mullarkey, Maureen Transubstantiations AGNI 62
Robinson, Jay Weldon Kees & Robinson: Portraits in Absentia
Sutton, Patrick Force by Two AGNI 61
Trifonov, Yuri A Visit with Marc Chagall AGNI 61
Wormser, Baron from The Woods: A Meditation AGNI 61


2004 Essays


Author Title Published
Banks, Russell H & I AGNI 60
Birkerts, Sven The Decline of the West & Other Animadversions
Birkerts, Sven Reading at the Limit AGNI 60
Birkerts, Sven Scratch
Birkerts, Sven Submission Guidelines AGNI 59
Bissell, Tom Truth in Oxiana AGNI 60
Blume, Harvey Hammer AGNI 60
Chiasson, Dan How to Read the World: Louise Glück’s 'Prism” AGNI 59
Cooley, Martha Dogs: A Moscow Triptych AGNI 59
Daniels, J. D. Technical Difficulty
Debeljak, Ales Tomaz Salamun and His 'Tribe” AGNI 59
Germanacos, Anne Caffeine
Grunwald, Eric On Leaving the Womb
Hall, Donald Domains AGNI 59
Harmon, Joshua The Annotated Mix-Tape AGNI 60
Jackson, Katherine Cake or Death? AGNI 60
Kopple, PhD, Kathryn A. A Reader’s Response to Anis Shivani’s “Where Does Collaboration with Fascist Aesthetics Begin and End?”
Larson, Doran An Instance
Man, George E. N. de Language in Myth, Religion, Saga, and Tale AGNI 59
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: From the Diary of a Self-hating Pundit AGNI 60
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Gentlemen’s Disagreements AGNI 59
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: with Alan Greenspan
Minkkinen, Arno Rafael Photography and the Fine Art of Swimming AGNI 59
Pickering, Sam End Papers
Pierce, William Fabulously Real AGNI 59
Purpura, Lia Glaciology AGNI 60
Sherman, Ken A Violence from Within: Poetry & Terrorism
Shivani, Anis Where Does Collaboration with Fascist Aesthetics Begin and End?
Warner, William Moscow to the End of the Line
Warner, William Products of a reading of an English translation of Doctor Zhivago's Italian publisher


2003 Essays


Author Title Published
Ashar, Ronny Objects and Digressions
Benfey, Christopher With How Sad Steps, O Moon AGNI 57
Birkerts, Sven Noble Rot AGNI 58
Birkerts, Sven On Becoming an Editor AGNI 57
Birkerts, Sven Stage 2
Blume, Harvey WB on the Treadmill AGNI 57
Dovzhenko, Alexander from The Enchanted Desna
Ferguson, Jesseca Introduction to the Art Feature AGNI 57
Frick, Thomas The Picture House AGNI 57
Howard, Maureen Vernissage AGNI 57
Keplinger, David Towards a Cultural Geography
LaSalle, Peter Metaphysical Messages: With J. L. B. in Buenos Aires AGNI 58
Livesey, Margot Eyeless, Headless AGNI 57
Mattison, Alice Fever AGNI 58
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Ball's Bearings and Monster from the Midlands AGNI 58
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: For the Iraqi Dead
Norman, Howard Carousel Horse AGNI 57
Pickering, Sam Early April AGNI 57
Purcell, Rosamond Breaking Ground AGNI 58
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon I Wish I Could Say the Same AGNI 58
Scialabba, George Message from Room 101 AGNI 57
Shrayer, Maxim D. Lorca AGNI 57
Slouka, Mark Historical Vertigo: Observations from the Nick of Time AGNI 58
Stavans, Ilan ¡Lotería! or, The Ritual of Chance AGNI 58
Stephenson, Wen Re: No Subject AGNI 58


2002 Essays


Author Title Published
Chapel, Debbie Danielpour Land Where My Fathers Died AGNI 55
Ginzburg, Natalia Film AGNI 55
Ginzburg, Natalia The Great Lady AGNI 55
Ginzburg, Natalia An Invisible Government AGNI 55
Karasik, Judy An Editorial Relationship AGNI 55
Mar, M. Elaine Bi Bi Hua AGNI 55
Melnyczuk, Askold Putting Down the Gloves, Leaving the Whispering Gallery AGNI 56
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Putting Down the Gloves, Leaving the Whispering Gallery AGNI 56
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: The Future of Literature in America AGNI 55
Moss, Rose Mulberries AGNI 55
Scialabba, George Letter to the Editor about Michael Scharf's “Statesman or War Criminal?” AGNI 56
Shrayer, Maxim D. Stephansplatz AGNI 55


2001 Essays


Author Title Published
Andrukhovych, Yuri Within Time, Down a River AGNI 53
Arnove, Anthony Scenes from Iraq AGNI 54
Berrigan, Philip Nuclear Denial AGNI 54
Broz, Svetlana Good People in Times of Evil AGNI 54
Feitlowitz, Marguerite 'We Know Nothing. It Isn’t Taught”: Secret Histories of Argentina’s Dirty War AGNI 54
Henry, DeWitt Innocents Abroad AGNI 53
Hryn, Halyna Oksana Zabuzhko’s Field Work in Ukrainian Sex AGNI 53
Manea, Norman Periprava, 1958 AGNI 54
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Prophet Loss AGNI 54
Rabben, Linda Amnesty International: Myth and Reality AGNI 54
Ratiner, Steven Introduction to Interviews with Bei Dao and Rita Dove AGNI 54
Rosenwald, Lawrence On Nonviolence and Literature AGNI 54
Rubenstein, Joshua Premature Witness AGNI 54
Scammell, Michael Arthur Koestler in Civil War Spain AGNI 54
Stavans, Ilan . . . and justice for all AGNI 54
Stavans, Ilan Efraín Huerta: Epitaph for the Crocodile AGNI 53
Stavans, Ilan Efraín Huerta: Epitaph for the Crocodile AGNI 53
Wasserman, Dan Lunacy ’Toons AGNI 54
Wilde-Menozzi, Wallis The Oneness of Music AGNI 53


2000 Essays


Author Title Published
Bourne, Louis Rafael Alberti between the Sword and the Carnation AGNI 52
Buchwald, Christoph Mixed Choir with Eleven Voices AGNI 52
Daynard, Jodi Time Has a Color AGNI 51
Földényi, László Under the Reichsbeauty’s Spell AGNI 51
Goldensohn, Barry Melville’s The Confidence Man and His Descendants in David Mamet’s Work AGNI 52
Lehman, David What the Poets in Germany Are Up To These Days AGNI 52
Lennon, Ivan A Minimum Rage AGNI 51
Man, George de Silent Reading: Southern Gnostic and the State of the Union AGNI 51
Melnyczuk, Askold In Memorium: Solomea Pavlychko AGNI 51
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Able Was I Ere I Was Cain AGNI 52
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: The Future of Fiction: Toward a New Internationalism AGNI 51
Shrayer, Maxim D. Master of Palindromes: Remembering and Rereading Michael B. Kreps AGNI 51
Shrayer, Maxim D. A Note on Eduard Bagritskii’s 'Origin” AGNI 52
Silbert, Sarah The Great Heron Feeds AGNI 51
Stavans, Ilan The Rise and Fall of Yiddish AGNI 52
Vierek, Peter Preface to Lynette Labinger’s Conversation with Joseph Brodsky AGNI 51


1999 Essays


Author Title Published
Bergstein, Gerry Introduction to the Art Feature: Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz AGNI 49
Bergstein, Gerry Introduction to the Art Feature: Shellburne Thurber AGNI 50
Brenna, Duff Alienation, Imagination, Secrets and Sins in Thomas E. Kennedy AGNI 50
Chasalow, Eric AGNI in the Music Business AGNI 49
Cherry, Kelly What is Music? What is Poetry? AGNI 49
Goldenson, Barry David Mamet and Poetic Language in Drama AGNI 49
Henry, Dewitt First Love: A Memoir AGNI 49
Kennedy, Thomas E. Sweet Fire: Memories of Andre Dubus AGNI 50
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: Saved by Shame: Milosz’s Concupiscent Curds AGNI 49
Sleigh, Tom One Person in Three Substances, or Three Substances in One Person? AGNI 49
Voskeritchian, Taline The Eyes of Yerevan AGNI 49
Whedon, Tony The Transfiguration of Pinsky AGNI 49


1998 Essays


Author Title Published
Benevich, Grigory Which Earth? AGNI 47
Berger, Andrea A Note on ádám Bodor’s Fiction AGNI 48
Brasfield, James A Note on Oleh Lysheha AGNI 48
Callan, Annie Catherine in Glass, from Swimming at the Joyce Museum AGNI 47
Hausler, Pete A Strange Kind of Exile—Hope and Despair in Ivan Klima AGNI 48
Hemschemeyer, Judith Paying Attention AGNI 47
Hiestand, Emily Angela the Upside-Down Girl AGNI 47
Kates, J. Ed Hogan AGNI 47
Kennedy, Thomas E. The Dream of a Castle AGNI 48
Lawrence, Vicki Vergangenheitsbewaltigung AGNI 48
Lieblich, Julia Pieces of Bones AGNI 47
Melnyczuk, Askold Ed Hogan: In Memoriam AGNI 47
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: On Not Being Irish in Boston AGNI 48
Naydan, Michael M. Prefatory Note on Andrukhovych’s 'Testament” AGNI 48
Naydan, Michael In Eternal Memory AGNI 47
Rehder, Wulf The Thingun AGNI 47
Stavans, Ilan Memory and Literature AGNI 48
Walsh, Chris “Building the House of Dying”: Donald Hall’s Claim for Poetry AGNI 47
Zeitlin, Leora Memoir AGNI 47


1997 Essays


Author Title Published
Keplinger, David The Happiness Taboo AGNI 45
LaSalle, Peter No Ventriloquism: The Idea of Voice in Book Reviewing AGNI 45
Melnyczuk, Askold AGNI at Twenty-Five AGNI 46
Packer, George School on a Garbage Pile AGNI 45


1996 Essays


Author Title Published
Birkerts, Sven Joseph Brodsky AGNI 43
Brodsky, Joseph from 'Uncommon Visage,” in On Grief and Reason AGNI 43
Bruchac, Joseph Strong Stories AGNI 44
Collins, Martha Translating Viet Nam AGNI 44
Goodheart, Eugene Sticks and Stones AGNI 43
Heaney, Seamus Shorts for Simic AGNI 44
Hershman, Marcie Living on Top AGNI 44
Jarniewicz, Jerzy Poetry, History and the Love of Oranges AGNI 44
Kaysen, Susanna On Rereading The Magic Mountain AGNI 44
Mattawa, Khaled Epic Temptations AGNI 44
Melnyczuk, Askold To Tease a Shadow: In Memoriam, JB AGNI 43
Morris, Mary Essay on Eavesdropping AGNI 43
Neville, Tam Lin Mandelstam’s Web AGNI 44
Powers, Katherine A. On Conversation with Joseph Brodsky AGNI 43
Rehder, Wulf A Descriptive Analysis of Bank Notes AGNI 44
Wright, Carolyne Open Secrets: An Insider’s Introduction to Allende’s Chile AGNI 43


1995 Essays


Author Title Published
AGNI, Michael Franco’s Word of Mouth AGNI 41
Anderson, Scott E-mail from Paris AGNI 42
deNiord, Chard Peter Balakian and the Poetry of Witness: A Reply AGNI 41
Drakulic, Slavenka Reading Karahasan AGNI 41
Focht, Lynn The Risks of Being Suleiman AGNI 41
Goldner, Loren The On-Line World is Also on Fire: A Reply to Sven Birkerts’s The Gutenberg Elegies AGNI 42
Karahasan, Dzevad A Belated Reply to N. AGNI 41
Karahasan, Dzevad Letter from N. AGNI 41
Karahasan, Dzevad Literature and War AGNI 41
Karahasan, Dzevad A Love Letter AGNI 41
Scialabba, George Wistful Thinking about the Political Weeklies AGNI 41


1994 Essays


Author Title Published
Agosín, Marjorie How to Speak with the Dead? A Poet’s Notebook AGNI 39
Atkinson, Diana from Highways and Dancehalls AGNI 40
Bauer, Douglas After the Fact: Discoveries in the Writing of a Biographical Novel AGNI 40
Birkerts, Sven Biography and the Dissolving Self: A Note AGNI 40
Corbett, William A Confession AGNI 40
Corbett, William from Philip Guston AGNI 39
deNiord, Chard The High Place of American Poetry: The Problem with Witness AGNI 39
Homer, Art Falling AGNI 40
Johnson, Alex How I Became Eye AGNI 40
Johnson, Susan A Long Way in the Dark AGNI 40
Laughlin, James 9 Ridge Road, from Remembering William Carlos Williams AGNI 40
Malcomson, Scott from Borderlands: 27-39 AGNI 39
Moore, Honor The Crimson Snake AGNI 40
Pavlychko, Solomea A Catfish for Your Thoughts: Ukrainian Literature at the Turning Point AGNI 39
Phillips, Caryl Water AGNI 39
Pistalo, Vladimir The Building with a Crown AGNI 39
Polizzotti, Mark In Search of André Breton AGNI 40
Scialabba, George The Sealed Envelope AGNI 39
Simon, Linda Foreign States of Mind AGNI 40


1993 Essays


Author Title Published
Blumenthal, Michael The Things They Still Carry: A Post-Vietnam Story AGNI 38
Ellis, Thomas Sayers Windows, Open Homes, A Sense of Community AGNI 37
Lease, Joseph Start from Where You Are AGNI 37
Melnyczuk, Askold James Laughlin, Poet AGNI 37
Melnyczuk, Hanna On the Verge: Emerging Massachusetts Artists AGNI 37
Nelson, Victoria Messages of Black Birds AGNI 37


1992 Essays


Author Title Published
Barka, Wasyl The Nature of Poetry AGNI 35
Birkerts, Sven The Woman in the Garden AGNI 35
Corbett, William Prologue: Marlborough Gallery October 1970 AGNI 35
Davidson, Miriam Women of the Maquiladoras AGNI 36
Epstein, Leslie Two Young Writers AGNI 36
Garg, Mridula Bilingualism and the Creative Writer in India AGNI 36
Gewanter, David A Note on Thom Gunn’s 'Lament” AGNI 36
Heaney, Seamus Frank Bidart: A Salute AGNI 36
Lease, Joseph Who Do We Think We Are? AGNI 35
Nelson, Victoria The Strange History of the American Fanatic AGNI 36
Owchar, Nick 'What Was Lost”: Dissident Artists after Soviet Communism AGNI 36
Rosenwald, Lawrence On War Tax Resistance AGNI 35
Weiner, Joshua Thom Gunn’s 'Meat” AGNI 36


1991 Essays


Author Title Published
Balakian, Peter An Armenian Journal AGNI 33
Chomsky, Noam What Lies Ahead for Central America? AGNI 33
Cohen, Joshua The Gulf War and American Politics AGNI 34
Corbett, William Robert Mapplethorpe’s Photographs AGNI 33
Corbett, William Trevor Winkfield’s Altarpieces AGNI 34
Elman, Richard Post Time AGNI 34
Epstein, Leslie The Movie on the Warehouse Wall AGNI 34
II, Pat C. Hoy The Spirit Was Willing and So Was the Flesh AGNI 33
II, Pat C. Hoy Wars Just and Unjust AGNI 34
Melnyczuk, Askold Shadowboxing: A Column AGNI 33
Rose, Jennifer V-Mail AGNI 34
Rubchak, Bohdan Because We Have No Time: Recent Ukrainian Poetry AGNI 33
Suleiman, Susan Rubin My War in Four Episodes AGNI 33


1990 Essays