Cornel Bonca is a professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Paul Simon: An American Tune, and a longtime contributor to LARB.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Main Thing Is Dread: On Don DeLillo’s “The Silence”
Cornel Bonca contends with "The Silence," the latest novel from Don DeLillo....
Not in Kansas: On The National’s “I Am Easy to Find”
Cornel Bonca reviews The National’s new album and the Mike Mills movie based on it....
He Gets Us, He Really Gets Us: Jay McInerney’s “Bright, Precious Days” and the Sighs of the One Percent
The latest installment in Jay McInerney’s Manhattan Trilogy, a dutifully documented, tender-hearted take on The Way Manhattan’s Elite Live Now....
Focusing on the Fundamentals
The music of Loreena McKennitt...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird
A Review of 'Dope Machines' and 'Songs of God and Whiskey' by The Airborne Toxic Event....
The Sob in the Spine
Mikel Jollett’s Rock ’n’ Roll Alchemy...
The Inner Sanctum: John Freeman’s “How to Read a Novelist”
If you’re an avid follower of contemporary fiction, then John Freeman’s How To Read A Novelist is the perfect, and perfectly modest, book....
Salinger Betrayed: On Shane Salerno’s "Salinger"
The most unequivocal thing you can say about Shane Salerno’s documentary Salinger is that J.D. Salinger would have hated every single word and frame....
“Bliss Unending”: Why Luhrmann’s Dangerously Romantic Take On Gatsby Works
Why Luhrmann's 'Gatsby' Works...
Contact With The Real: On 'Cosmopolis'
The Singularity & late capitalism & technological despair — oh my!...
DeLillo's Inclinations Toward the Sacred
Sometime in the late 1970s, Don DeLillo stopped being embarrassed by his own inclinations toward the sacred....
Being Boring
The novel — what we have of it anyway — challenges us to pay attention with a selflessness that allows the world to "blaze in an almost sacred way."...
