Brianna Beehler

Brianna Beehler, a doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of Southern California, is a 2020–2021 Mellon–Council for European Studies Dissertation Completion Fellow. Her work has recently appeared in Nineteenth-Century Literature and is forthcoming in English Literary History.

Brianna Beehler

Reviews

on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

Elena Ferrante’s new novel, The Lying Life of Adults, is not a book that asks to be liked—at least, not by adults. Adult readers are, after all, just more of those adults who wander through the novel’s pages, telling lies and destroying lives, and therefore the very audience that the novel—at least in part—disavows. Adulthood […]

Summer 2021

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

on A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape...

on Blizzard by Henri Cole

on Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez

on Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

on The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems by Arthur Sze

on The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Good Neighbors (on Wolfram Eilenberger’s Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and...

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

Summer 2021

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

on A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape...

on Blizzard by Henri Cole

on Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez

on Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

on The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems by Arthur Sze

on The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Good Neighbors (on Wolfram Eilenberger’s Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and...

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

Summer 2021

Brianna Beehler

on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

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Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...