J onathan Kramnick’s book Criticism and Truth is more modest than its title suggests. Essentially an apologia for the nuts-and-bolts work of literary studies, it is best described not as “ambitious” — ...
S ince the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, which have not gone away — John Guillory, in his new book Professing Criticism, refers to them as “our domestic forever wars” — opponents of literary ...
“A simple microscope, concealed within a book binding,” 1820. (Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection) Have you read a book review recently? The ones that make the rounds, dropped in DMs and threaded ...
Anyone who has taught a college literature course has likely heard a student say, “Can’t I just enjoy the book?” This frustration with literary theory is common. Many undergraduates feel that theory ...
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By Bec KavanaghAn author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York ...
Literary fiction made trauma its default engine. Every protagonist carries a wound. Every backstory hides a crisis. But ...