John Domini

Biography

John Domini has published three novels and three books of stories, the latest MOVIEOLA! (Dzanc, 2016). His fourth novel, The Color Inside a Melon (Dzanc, 2019), is forthcoming. Shorter fiction has appeared in the Paris Review and elsewhere, and his journalism and criticism in the New York Times and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a literature fellowship from the NEA, and one of his novels, in translation, was runner-up for Italy’s Domenico Rea award. 

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CRITICISM / Spring 2019

Feminist Forms

By John Domini

“All your working life,” asks an exasperated wife, “you’ve studied these stories. Why?”

She means the stuff of folklore, her husband’s academic field, in which most narratives take a turn to the surreal. The man replies that such stories...

Naples Is Burning

By John Domini
CRITICISM

Cli-Fi

By John Domini

“Cli-Fi,” the latest portmanteau construction with which critics try to corral runaway culture (“postmodern,” e.g.), first turned up in a 2007 tweet. The coinage puts together fiction and climate, implying “climate change,” and it rhymes...
CRITICISM

Picturing Books

By John Domini

“Picture books,” children call them—but they’re not just for children anymore. 
CRITICISM / Winter 2015

Of Time and Memory

By John Domini

Fascinating: two gifted women storytellers, feeding on cataclysm. The American Laura Van den Berg, in Find Me, looks to the future, more or less; she imagines a plague that decimates an otherwise familiar United States.