Welcome to The Vonnegut Review

What is The Vonnegut Review?
A Brief Reflection on #VonnegutSummer

Opening Essays

Kurt Vonnegut Has Come Unstuck in Time
Irony and Authenticity in the American Imagination

Miscellaneous Essays

All Too Human: On Kurt Vonnegut's Legacy
Los Angeles Review of Books, 27 February 2014

Vonnegut's Labor of Literature
Jacobin Magazine, Labor Day 2013

Memorial Day - How Should We Remember?

Essays on Novels

Player Piano (1952)
Player Piano, the One-Dimensional Society, and the Emergency Brake of History

The Sirens of Titan (1959)
The Kings of Infinite Space and The Sirens of Titan

Mother Night (1961)

Vonnegut in Jerusalem: A Report on the Absurdity of Language and Media

Cat's Cradle (1963)

San Lorenzo Mon Amour

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

The Tragedy of Eliot Rosewater, Prince of Indiana

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

Oscillating to Eternity: Apocalypse and Eden in Vonnegut's Telegraphic Schizophrenic Novel

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

Vonnegut on Truth and Aesthetics in a Nonmoral Sense

Slapstick (1976)

Of Man's Rude Slapstick, Yes, And God's

Jailbird (1979)

Vonnegut's Sermon on the Mount

Deadeye Dick (1982)

Speechless in Simulation: A Missive for Midland City

Galapagos (1985)

A Second Noah's Ark

Bluebeard (1987)

American Lazarus and the Renaissance of Rabo Karabekian

Hocus Pocus (1990)

Kurt Vonnegut as Ragpicker and Poet

Timequake (1997)

Fictional Humans and Humanist Fictions