Mark Athitakis

Biography

Mark Athitakis is a critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book Review, the New Republic, and the Barnes & Noble Review, as well as on his blog, American Fiction Notes. He serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

See Work

CRITICISM / Summer 2013

Art for App’s Sake

By Mark Athitakis

It is the duty of the creator of any book app to assume that whatever sense of immersion we enjoy in a conventional book can be improved upon. More things to become immersed in, the logic goes, means more immersion, which means a better...
CRITICISM

A Review of The Silent History

By Mark Athitakis