I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer unorthodox ways of doing double duty as literary criticism and as love letters to the power of literature… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
I think it's often easier to theorize in the official codes of theory rather than to theorize lightly through scene, object, story, and incident in ways that keeps alive the sensual serendipities of language. This is not a question of being for or against theory, but rather of being suspicious of orthodoxies that concede, in advance, that what passes for… — Rob Nixon Copy Share
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer unorthodox ways… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
I am talking about ordinary people making the link between their communities being treated as disposable and the assumption that the environments they depend… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
In volume and velocity, the new media are making available testimony on a previously unimaginable scale. I'm neither as romantic about the new media… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc. And my… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
