THE DECADENT REVIEW

Who Killed Gilles Deleuze? (Episode 1)

Twentieth century philosophy is fatalistically encumbered by its over—professionalisation. Life…

The Metaphysical Dilemma of Lew Welch

by Charles Upton

Not in Matter

by James Harmon Clinton

Poetry June 8, 2022

The Speaker is Listening To “Flower” by Liz Phair on the Occasion of Pruning by the Wrought Iron

by Spencer Silverthorne

Poetry May 31, 2022

Before You (By Which I Mostly Mean I) Die

by Michael Brosnan

Poetry June 7, 2022

Act 1

by Dimitri Kaufman

Criticism

On Cuteness

Voice: A Postliterary Disintegration in Four Modern Classics

by John Oliver Hodges

Literary Topoi

by Kimmo Rosenthal

The Death of The Critic: Barthes’ Royal Treatment in Pale Fire

by Domenic Cregan

The Vice of Banality

by Donald Short

Eight Remarks on Style and Fashion

The Hidden Dreamscape of Claude Tousignant’s Violence Lucide

by Margaryta Golovchenko

Subjects Hinder Talk

by Caroline Fernelius

A Lurker’s Guide to Breathing Women and Men

by Alex Checkovich

Traces

by Robert Stone

Melville’s Descent into the Maelstrom

Author Morsels

Criticism, Confusion, and Lies

by Donald Short

Char(Lotte in Weimar)’s Web

by Florina Nastase

Increasing Convergence Between Time and Abstraction

by Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

Two Cardinal Points

Meridian

Beethoven: Decomposition

by Spencer Hawkins

The Idea of Structure in Marvin Bell’s Treetops

by John Timothy Robinson

TEXTURALITY

The Decadent Review

by Dimitri Kaufman

Reviews

Essays

The Metaphysical Dilemma of Lew Welch

by Charles Upton

Shostakovich’s Symphony № 4: The Intention to Disturb Us

by Paul-John Ramos

Plaster Cast, Martini Glass, Potted Orchid: The Life of Kitty Oppenheimer

A Map of Vienna

Meandering Toward a Definition of an Essay

by Paul Graseck

Poe & Alcoholism

by Timothy Resau

Re-reading Keats at Fifty

by Jason K. Friedman

Šalamun’s Shostakovich: Reading the Entrails of Tomaž Šalamun’s “His Leg Was Repatriated”

by Matthew Moore

Remarks on Gibbon’s Remarks on Voltaire

by Peter Wakeman Schranz

Body snatcher, soul catcher, doppelgänger

by H.C. Gildfind

An Abyss Between Them

by Eduardo Frajman

Marcel Duchamp Mugged by a Street Hustler

Speaking while Eating, and Vice Versa

by Tingting Hui

Language, Thought, and Bluets

by Jack Bastock

Small Latin and Less Greek

by Clifford Venho

Abstraction and Photography

by Michael Betancourt

Poetry

Not in Matter

by James Harmon Clinton

The Speaker is Listening To “Flower” by Liz Phair on the Occasion of Pruning by the Wrought Iron

by Spencer Silverthorne

Before You (By Which I Mostly Mean I) Die

by Michael Brosnan

Act 1

by Dimitri Kaufman

Bleeding Out The Catch

Nude in a Fun House Mirror

LUFTMENSCHN

The Man Who Fell to Earth in Dayton

The Heart in its Garden

by Askold Skalsky

The Big City

by Peycho Kanev

End!

Reuben

by Craig Cotter

Chef’s Second Chance

Here Comes Saturday…

by David Earl Williams

Reality Reflecting / Reflecting Reality

by Thomas Osatchoff

Ephemera

How a Preposition Means

by Philip Vassallo

ON MY [OR OUR] NIMBLE TOES

by Nathan Whiting

Otto

by James Reidel

Cauchemar

by Sandra Salinas Newton

Two Poems After The Greek Anthology

Tehran Being

by Danial Haghighi

Imposterity

by Mark DeCarteret

Unseen Water Creatures

by Marie-Louise Eyres

Lake Swimming at Night

by Samuel Spencer

Madrigals of War and Love

My Addition to Literary Theory

by Matthew Freeman

Self Portrait as Disease

by Steve Gerson

Marlowe’s Season

by Juleigh Howard-Hobson

Upon living in the former home of Gerald Stern

by Colleen Kennedy

You Want to Read a Poem

by Cassandra Pereira

SPECULATIONS ON THE MAKING OF ANSELM KIEFER’S THE BREAKING OF THE VESSELS

by Ahreeda Ryter

Discomposed

by Olga Pavlinova Olenich

The ship’s Cook gives instructions to the Mariner on how to prepare his Albatross

by Marie-Louise Eyres

The Possibility of Response

by Terence Degnan

After the Book Launch

by Eric Machan Howd

Metafiction

Who Killed Gilles Deleuze? (Episode 1)

Not All Priests Are On The Side Of The Good

Olivia

After the Death of God

Borges, Joe Sims, and I

by Clark Zlotchew

Plays

PlaysMay 12, 2020<August 16, 2021

Quarto

I Doubleyew Banton CHARACTER DOUBLEYEW Blind, Braille-literate, Jamaican Londoner. In…

PlaysJanuary 1, 2018<August 15, 2021

CON FORZA, PART I: HAMMERKLAVIER

The following play Hammerklavier – fantasia quasi una biografia, is the…

PlaysJanuary 1, 2017<August 15, 2021

CON FORZA, PART II: OUT OF THE SKILLET

The following play Out of the Skillet – preantepenultimate palimpsest,…

PlaysJanuary 5, 2019<August 15, 2021

CON FORZA, PART IV: THE PROPER TASK

The following play The Proper Task – W.I.P., is the…

PlaysFebruary 3, 2018<August 15, 2021

CON FORZA, PART III: EVENINGS ILLUMINED BY THE ARDOUR OF COAL

The following play Evenings Illuminated by the Ardour of Coal…