Nick Ripatrazone

New Jersey

Contributor and Culture Editor at Image Journal

Books: https://t.co/ZDQu52CRf6 / Writing: Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, + Esquire / Contributing Editor @CatholicHerald / Culture Editor @Image_Journal

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Articles

‘The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s’ Book Review

2 weeks ago | nationalreview.com | Nick Ripatrazone
The Art of the Critic

4 weeks ago | metropolitanreview.org | Nick Ripatrazone

“The floods of tepid soap and water which under the name of novels are being vomited forth in England, seem to me,” Henry James wrote, “to do little honour to our race.” In February 1884, 40-year-old James dismissed contemporary British novels in a letter to American novelist and editor William Dean Howells.
The Most Literary Pope: Requiescat in Pace, Francis

2 months ago | lithub.com | Nick Ripatrazone

Pope Francis is dead at 88, on the day after Easter—an appropriate Lenten epilogue for a pontiff with a keen sense of story. 60 years earlier, Francis was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Jesuit seminarian who taught literature and writing at Colegio de la Immaculada Concepciòn, a secondary school for boys in Santa Fé, Argentina. His students called him carucha; babyface. The boys were in their final two years of school.
On the Enduring Power of Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust, 50 Years Later

2 months ago | lithub.com | Nick Ripatrazone

Charles Reznikoff graduated from New York University’s law school in 1915. He was admitted to the bar the next year, and only practiced law for a few months. Yet his legal training defined his life as a poet for the next sixty years, culminating with his final book, Holocaust. Fifty years after its initial publication, Reznikoff’s poetic engagement with the Nuremberg trials and the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, remains stunning and disturbing.
Checking Facts in a Post-Truth World

2 months ago | thebulwark.com | Nick Ripatrazone

The Fact Checkerby Austin KelleyAtlantic Monthly Press, 256 pp., $27IN THE 1950S, TO CAPTURE WHAT IT WAS LIKE to have his stories sunk by a fact-checker, a Time magazine writer came up with a song. “I don’t think we can say this / I don’t like how we play this / I’m not sure that’s the way this was,” it went, with the words sung to the tune of “You’re Just in Love,” by Irving Berlin.
Checking Facts in a Post-Truth World

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Nick Ripatrazone

The Fact Checkerby Austin KelleyAtlantic Monthly Press, 256 pp., $27IN THE 1950S, TO CAPTURE WHAT IT WAS LIKE to have his stories sunk by a fact-checker, a Time magazine writer came up with a song. “I don’t think we can say this / I don’t like how we play this / I’m not sure that’s the way this was,” it went, with the words sung to the tune of “You’re Just in Love,” by Irving Berlin.
A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

2 months ago | lithub.com | Nick Ripatrazone

In 1977, Val Kilmer was 17. He was “raw with grief” over the recent death of his younger brother, Wesley. He flung himself into his studies at Juilliard, where he’d auditioned for the drama program with a poem. “I wrote my own piece because I couldn’t find anything that would be fresh,” he said. “They’d heard everything and I knew that, so I decided to do my own thing and see how it went.” His own thing was “Sand,” an original poem:Sand.
The Time a Couple Crazy Kids-Ford Madox Ford, Hemingway-Started a Journal in Paris

Feb 7, 2025 | lithub.com | Nick Ripatrazone

“For a time it was fun.”Article continues after advertisementIn November 1923, Ford Madox Ford, “like everyone else in Paris,” was sick with flu. Yet he was optimistic. He dashed off letters from a typewriter set on “a table across my bed.” In 1908, Ford founded The English Review, and edited its first fifteen issues. Now, as he wrote his daughter, he was “at my old game of starting reviews” again. The Transatlantic Review had an almost preternatural birth.
How to read like a Christian – and avoid lazy thinking - Catholic Herald

Feb 1, 2025 | catholicherald.co.uk | Nick Ripatrazone

Nearly a hundred years ago, the English writer IA Richards coined a phrase that has become a mainstay of literary studies. “All respectable poetry,” he wrote in Practical Criticism, “invites close reading.” Richards would never again use the phrase, but it has become synonymous with a type of reading that his critical method influenced. In On Close Reading, John Guillory mines the origin and evolution of this rather imprecise phrase – and why its ambiguity might be a problem.
An Immigrant’s Son

Dec 13, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Nick Ripatrazone

‘The Godfather Part II’ still captures the paradoxes of America 50 years later.