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.


Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia's Poetry

Review: 99 Poems: New and Selected, by Dana Gioia

A.O. Scott

What Is Criticism?

Review: A.O. Scott, ‘Better Living Through Criticism: How To Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth’

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg, Bore

Review: Wait Till I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems, by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Bill Morgan

Small-town Women, circa 1913

Imagining the Weimar Republic

Review: 'Emblems of the Passing World: Poems after Photographs by August Sander,' by Adam Kirsch

Illuminated Manuscript Wikimedia Commons

Verse Riddles

Review: Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles, translated by A. M. Juster

Robert Frost, Family Man

Review: Lesley Lee Francis, ‘You Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost’

Did Conservatives Start Creative Writing Programs to Fight the Cold War?

Review: Eric Bennett, ‘Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War’

Reading to the End

Review: Clive James, ‘Latest Readings’

The Real ‘Great Satan’

Review: Michael Walsh, ‘The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West’

Saul Bellow at 100

Review: Zachary Leader, ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’