The Novel, Who Needs It? by Joseph Epstein
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The latest from legendary critic and editor Joseph Epstein.
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Sunday Best By John Carey
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Veteran book critic collects work spanning thousands of reviews.
Read MoreThe Turning Point by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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A new book cites 1851 as a key year in the career of Charles Dickens.
Read MoreThis is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
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A scholar explores for a popular audience how ambiguity creates contemporary relevance in twenty of Shakespeare’s plays.
Read MoreAusten Years by Rachel Cohen
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A graceful and deeply introspective memoir written by a woman who reads and rereads Jane Austen to help her confront the changes occurring in her own life, and learns that her personal experiences give her a new lens to explore the meaning of Austen’s novels.
Read MoreTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
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The author explores the construction of her identity during the Internet’s own infancy.
Read MoreL.E.L. by Lucasta Miller
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A terrifically detailed and invigorating account of a very complicated woman.
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Criticism in Cyberspace
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As they should, the essays collected in The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online offer a mixed assessment of the literary culture the Internet has both transformed and distorted. By now it is clear that online literary culture is no longer seen as an appendage to the “real,” more serious and authoritative culture originating in print but is now a fully functioning source of both literary writing and commentary about that writing—it might be argued, in fact, that it now provides the largest and most significant part of the latter.
Read MoreAll Our Revels Ended
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After a long career spent in the throes of literary battle, Harold Bloom wants to tell us that he is done fighting.
He began his combat in the mid-fifties by defending the English Romantics against the New Critics who, inspired by T.S. Eliot, maligned Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth and others to such an extent that study of them was virtually banned in American universities until Bloom took up the call.
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