Le Fleuve
A little past the midpoint of Annie Ernaux’s “impersonal autobiography,” The Years (2008), Jean-Paul Sartre dies: “The deaths of intellectualsContinue Reading
Author: Jonathan Elmer
Jonathan Elmer is a critic, writer, teacher, scholar, and musician who divides his time between Bloomington, Indiana and Chicago.
Muttonchops and Horns
Horns pushed his way into the Senate Building with his flag-draped spear. He threatened Capitol police through a bullhorn, loungedContinue Reading
The Black Box, Illuminated
In 1909, D. W. Griffith made two short films inspired by Poe and his works. The first, Edgar Allen PoeContinue Reading
Witnessed
Sometimes you don’t want to read a book because you know it will make you unhappy. You know you willContinue Reading
Mencken, My Father, and Me
After my father died, and before my mother did, when the house I had grown up in was being emptiedContinue Reading
Amomalistics Research
Like its subject, Lyall Watson’s Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind, is fugitive, all-encompassing, and impossible to trackContinue Reading
My Other Office 
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