Jack Hanson is a writer living in Brooklyn. He is associate editor at The Yale Review and lecturer in English at Yale University. He received his PhD in Religious Studies from Yale in 2024.
Essays, Criticism, etc.
“Last Rites,” NYR Online, 20 October 2024
“Inner Light,” Paris Review Daily, 13 August 2024
“Interview: Eliot Weinberger,” The Yale Review, 31 July 2024
“Ghost Pains,” 4Columns, 1 March 2024
“In the Streets of Rome with Pier Paolo Pasolini,” The Nation, 7 February 2024
“In Defense of Cliché: On Brian Dillon,” Cleveland Review of Books, Vol 0.1
“When the Winds Turn: Christian Petzold’s Afire,” Commonweal, 5 August 2023
“The Miseducation of Mario Vargas Llosa,” The Nation, 5 July 2023
“The Faith of Halldór Laxness,” The Nation, 28 December 2022
“The Dominance of Place: Gerald Murnane,” Commonweal, 19 September 2022
“The Allure of Catholic Aesthetics,” Gawker, 29 July 2022
“Of Course Disney Released a Sex Pistols Show,” Gawker, 8 June 2022
“Tricks of the Trade: Emily Hall’s The Longcut,” The Baffler, 25 May 2022
“Heaven Sent: Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John,” Artforum, 25 April 2022
“Finding the Right Angle: On David Jones,” Lapham’s Quarterly, 16 February 2022
“How Should a Person Tree?: Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour,” The Baffler, 14 February 2022
“Edith Wharton’s Hauntology,” The Baffler, 27 October 2021
“A Serious Man: Charles Péguy’s Militant Mysticism,” Commonweal, 3 May 2021
“Mary Jo Salter: The Surveyors,” Kenyon Review Online, 19 May 2019
“William Logan: Rift of Light,” Kenyon Review Online, 9 February 2018
“Len Krisak’s Rilke,” PN Review 231, September–October 2016
“Marilynne Robinson: Givenness of Things,” The Hopkins Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 2016
“On Stephan Mallarmé,” The Quarterly Conversation
“Paul Celan: Collected Later Poetry,” The Quarterly Conversation
Poetry
“The Real Show” and “Paper Snow,” Berfrois, 8 December 2022
“Brown Study,” The Hopkins Review, Spring 2020
“Doctrine,” Berfrois, 2 August 2019
“Self-Allowance,” Berfrois, 12 December 2018
“In Europe,”The New Criterion. Vol. 36, No. 4., December 2018
“Emblem,” Salamander Magazine, Issue 48, Spring/Summer 2018
“The Breeze,” Berfrois, 4 September 2017
Monica Moody and Other Poems (chapbook), Pen and Anvil Press, 2017
“Mere Semblance” and “Somehow in C Major,” PN Review, Issue 234, March–April 2017
“L’esprit terreuse,”Berfrois, 29 March 2017
“Table Manners,” Partisan, 18 May 2016
'“Seaworthy Exchange,” Partisan, 10 September 2015