Adam Kirsch was born on 1976 and is an American poet and literary critic.
11 Facts About Adam Kirsch
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Adam Kirsch is on the seminar faculty of Columbia University's Center for American Studies, and has taught at YIVO.
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Adam Kirsch is the son of lawyer, author, and biblical scholar Jonathan Kirsch.
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Adam Kirsch currently holds the position of senior editor for The New Republic, the publication where he started his writing career.
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Adam Kirsch has written articles on assorted cultural issues, including rap music, America and the Roman Empire, the relationship between conservative politics in America and the writings of Ayn Rand, and the importance of literary criticism.
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Adam Kirsch has published two books of poems, The Thousand Wells and Invasions, as well as nonfiction books on Benjamin Disraeli and Lionel Trilling.
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Adam Kirsch's poems have appeared in many magazines, including The Paris Review, Partisan Review, The Formalist, Harvard Review, and The New Criterion.
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In Poetry, the poet Carmine Starnino wrote a review of two of Adam Kirsch's books published around the same time: Invasions and The Modern Element.
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Adam Kirsch's Benjamin Disraeli is an expert, emotionally astute study of the complicated Jewish-English statesman and novelist, and The Wounded Surgeon and The Modern Element, his two books on English-language poets, rise to Dr Johnson's criterion for lasting criticism: the conversion of mere opinion into universal knowledge.
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In Why Trilling Matters, Adam Kirsch has turned his considerable gifts to the mind he most resembles in comprehensive literary and cultural understanding.
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Adam Kirsch pointed out that settler colonialist ideology lacks appeal to indigenous peoples, since it does not improve their situation.