Jack Hanson is a writer living in Brooklyn. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies at Yale University and an assistant editor at The Yale Review.
Criticism
“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