Morgan Meis

Biography

Morgan Meis is the author of a novel, Angelus Novus (Soft Skull Press, 1995), and has written for The Believer, Harper’s, and each week for The Smart Set. He is an editor of 3quarksdaily.com, a filter blog treating literature, science, and the arts, and is a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Award for his art criticism. His past contributions to VQR include his travelogue of Vietnam, co-authored with Tom Bissell and reprinted in Best American Travel Writing, and his essay on Jasper Johns’s target paintings.

See Work

CRITICISM / Winter 2012

The Teardrop of the Subcontinent: A Tour of the Literature of Sri Lanka

By Morgan Meis

 

ESSAYS / Fall 2011

A Monument to Forgetting

By Morgan Meis

How one disaster at Katyn helped us move past another

CRITICISM / Summer 2011

The Seaward Peep: Three writers respond to Moby-Dick

By Morgan Meis

Moby-Dick is not about Moby-Dick. Not really. The white whale makes his appearance, of course. We have been promised that much. Moby-Dick emerges, finally, at the end of Melville’s great novel, in the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.

Spring 2007

Taking Aim: Jasper Johns, An Allegory of Painting, 1955–1965

By Morgan Meis