John Ashbery said he was nice—“nice as a person and nice as an artist.” I think it’s fair to say that we don’t have a rich critical vocabulary for nice artists. (And how ...

Andrew H. Miller
Andrew H. Miller is the author of the forthcoming On Not Being Someone Else: Tales from Our Unled Lives, and a professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. His essays have appeared in Brick, Raritan, and the Michigan Quarterly Review.