David Mikics

Professor of English (New College of Florida) and a Tablet columnist; author of books on Kubrick, Bellow, and Harold Bloom.

David Mikics is Professor of English at New College of Florida and a columnist for Tablet; his books include studies of Stanley Kubrick and Saul Bellow and the edited volume The MAD Files. His 2024 essay Norman Mailer vs. the Big Empty reads Mailer’s “left conservative” politics and anti-corporate critique through the 2023 collection A Mysterious Country.