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Jonathan Russell Clark

Jonathan Russell Clark
Jonathan Russell Clark is the author of Skateboard and An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, and Esquire. He's also a columnist for Tasteful Rude.


Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Imbues the Fairy Tale with Human Frailty and Historical Darkness

Jonathan Russell Clark on Fascists, Fathers, and Federico Fellini
December 5, 2022  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Three Thousand Years of Longing Grants Few Wishes

George Miller’s New Adaptation Makes the Same Mistake as A.S. Byatt's Story
August 30, 2022  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Does George Saunders’s Escape From Spiderhead Stand Up on Film?

Jonathan Russell Clark on Netflix’s $100 Million Adaptation of a Beloved Short Story
June 17, 2022  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Older, Grayer, Sober: Aging Alongside the Jackass Dudes

Jonathan Russell Clark on the Changing Ethos of Skateboarding Culture
February 23, 2022  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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How Reading John McPhee’s Book on Tennis Helped Me Write About Skateboarding

Jonathan Russell Clark Finds Better Ways to Describe the Action
February 9, 2022  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Amy Long on Why Taylor Swift is the Perfect Vehicle Through Which To Talk About Books

Jonathan Russell Clark Talks to the Writer Behind the “Taylor Swift As Books” Instagram Account
November 17, 2021  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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The Best Books About Books: Part 3

From the Critical to the Personal, Reflections on Reading
May 10, 2017  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Entering Scoundrel Time: A New Literary Site Takes on Trump

"Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did."
February 1, 2017  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn’t Need Them

On Misguided Spoiler Panic and Why We Should All Calm Down
September 6, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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The Best Books About Books: Part 2

On Works of Criticism by Cynthia Ozick, C.D. Wright, Teju Cole, and More
July 21, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Borges is Still Dead. (Or Is He? And Which Borges?)

On the 30th Anniversary of the Death of Jorge Luis Borges
June 14, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Will Anyone Read Chuck Klosterman
in 100 Years?

Even When Pop Culture Fades, Its Best Critics Don't
June 10, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Actually, Criticism Is Literature

Writing About the Art of Writing is an Art Unto Itself
June 2, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Skateboarding in Fiction: A Brief History of Failure

On Accuracy and Authenticity in Art
March 24, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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The Women of the World Poetry Slam Comes to Brooklyn

On Creating a Safe Space for All Voices to Be Heard
March 9, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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102 Indispensible Works of Literary Criticism

A Highly Subjective and Idiosyncratic List Created Upon Moving House
March 4, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Where is Wisława Szymborska’s Teeming Crowd?

Remembering the Great Poet 20 Years After Her Nobel Prize
January 8, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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A Reader’s Manifesto for 2016

Literary Resolutions from a Straight, White Male
January 4, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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The Literary Star Wars, a History

George Lucas and His Heroes, From Flash Gordon to Francis Ford Coppola
December 18, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Writers at Work: The Year in Collected Essays

On 12 Books (and 4,554 Pages) by Journalists, Critics, Columnists, and Contributors
December 14, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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