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Ryan Lackey
Home
Writing
Academic Work and CV
Photography
Contact
Home
Writing
Academic Work and CV
Photography
Contact

Essays

“New Men, Same Story: Ted Lasso‘s Heteroformalism.”
Post45 Contemporaries

“Disappointing Attachments: Reading The Secret History on Campus.”
South Central Review

“Safe at Home in Late Capitalism.”
Public Books      

“Dungeons & Dragons and Baseball; or, Robert Coover Fights the Robot Umps.”
Los Angeles Review of Books

“On David Foster Wallace’s Obsession with Failure.”
Literary Hub

Fiction

“Maintenance Phase.”
Joyland

“A Few Perfect Innings.”
Cream City Review  

Reviews

“Utopian Mediocrity: Mark Haber’s ‘Lesser Ruins.’”
Mid Theory Collective

“Grief-Wild in This Orphan World: On R. O. Kwon’s ‘Exhibit’”
Los Angeles Review of Books

“Dayswork – Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel.”
Full Stop

“Minor Aesthetics: On Helen DeWitt’s ‘The English Understand Wool’.”
The Millions

“K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want is Driven by New and Strange Hungers.”
Slant Magazine

“Stuck Somewhere Around Purgatory in To Paradise.”
Chicago Review of Books

“Life in the Unspooling Now: Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You?”
Commonweal

“On Alex McElroy’s The Atmospherians.”
Kenyon Review

“A Literary Tasting Menu: My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee.”
The Rumpus

“William Deresiewicz, The Death of the Artist.”
Chicago Review

“Debating at the End of History: Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School.”
Slant Magazine

Odds, Ends

“Writing as Thinking as Opposed to What?”
Art of Writing