Free Beacon Micah Mattix

Micah Mattix is an associate professor of English at Regent University and a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard. He edits the literary newsletter Prufrock.


A Very Modern Herbert

Review: Helen Wilcox (ed.), ‘George Herbert: 100 Poems’

Can American Colleges Be Fixed?

Review: Peter Lawler, 'American Heresies and Higher Education'

Was E.E. Cummings the Holden Caulfield of American Poetry?

Review: E.E. Cummings, George James Firmage (ed.), ‘Complete Poems: 1904-1962’

Cynthia Ozick

The Queen of the Thunderbolt

Review: Cynthia Ozick, ‘Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays’

Michael Astrue

A Modern Martial

Review: A. M. Juster, 'Sleaze & Slander'

Ernest Hilbert

Ernest Hilbert’s Street Music

Review: Ernest Hilbert, ‘Caligulan’

David Foster Wallace

Double Fault

Review: David Foster Wallace, ‘String Theory’

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson’s Wisdom

Review: Cristanne Miller, ed., ‘Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them’

The Comedy Tour That Saved Mark Twain

Review: Richard Zacks, 'Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain’s Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour'

Les Murray's Places

Review: Les Murray, ‘Waiting for the Past’