Carol Iannone

Carol Iannone is editor at large of "Academic Questions" and has written on literature, education, and culture for a variety of publications.

Posts by Carol Iannone

May 31, 2023

A Campus Satire for Our Time

As far back as the 1960s, novelist Philip Roth declared that reality in the United States was outpacing the creative capacities of the writer of fiction. “The actuality is continually outdoing our talents,” he wrote back then, “and the culture tosses up figures daily that are the envy of any novelist.” Continue Reading...

August 31, 2022

Despite the critical backlash, Persuasion largely persuades

Can an unmarried woman become a guide to romance? It certainly appears so with Jane Austen (1775–1817), spinster author of sharp, witty novels of manners set in early 19th-century England, who has become something of a belated authority on navigating the rocky shores of modern romance. Continue Reading...

February 10, 2022

Is The Lost Daughter this generation’s A Doll’s House?

In Henrik Ibsen’s seminal play A Doll’s House, protagonist Nora Helmer, a hitherto devoted wife and mother, walks out on her husband and their three children, significantly slamming the door behind her in the last scene. Continue Reading...