| 单词 | literary critic |
| 例句 | “My mother used to say you would become a leading literary critic.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She was brilliant, had been an avid reader her whole life, and she was a terrific literary critic, editor, and proofreader. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He took writing samples from some of his most artistically minded subjects and had literary critics compare them to the early writings of famous authors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They were literary critics, and they thought Billy was one, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Howard Jacobson imagined a dividing line between literary critics and theater directors, there was, for decades, a similarly tense dynamic between serious dramatists and successful television writers. A scholar gives theater directors their due when it comes to Shakespeare 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z And he has engaged with other leading thinkers like Jacques Derrida, becoming one of the most important literary critics and philosophers in his native Japan. Kojin Karatani Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Poe struck a chord with European writers, and as his international stature rose in the late 19th century, literary critics in the U.S. wrung their hands over his lack of appreciation "at home." How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z I am naturally in despair, as it is obvious that any small literary reputation I may possess could not possibly survive the disapproval of so eminent and famous a literary critic. Peeved, Irritated and Annoyed: Early Letters to the Editor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But Rimington said literary critics who knock the Booker are being "pathetic." Julian Barnes leads Booker Prize finalists 2011-10-18T11:01:07Z In another life, he was a prep school kid who grew up in New York City, and later an Ivy League graduate studying under literary critic Harold Bloom and pursuing a PhD. David Duchovny: ‘I can't play Mulder the way I did. That would be obscene’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z I’m a literary critic and historian by training and inclination, but I enjoyed the challenge of acquiring new kinds of knowledge in researching this book. ArtsBeat: Life During Wartime: Lara Feigel Talks About ‘The Love-charm of Bombs’ 2013-07-10T17:56:38Z The poet and literary critic Randall Jarrell didn’t care for this new painting; neither did the cultural impresario Lincoln Kirstein. ‘Art in America 1945-1970,’ Edited by Jed Perl 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Charles Finch is a literary critic and novelist whose next book, “The Vanishing Man,” will be published on Feb. 19. Murderous Husbands, Flapper-Era Gun Molls and Korean Assassins: The Best Winter Thrillers 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The expected response to Stothard's comments would be: Of course there are inessential blogs, just as there are inessential literary critics. Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism 2012-09-26T15:37:00Z We lost one of our greatest literary critics, Frank Kermode, a few months ago. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z The Austrian literary critic Leo Spitzer posited, in the fifties, that the word stemmed “from a certain use of the verb incurrere which, in classical Latin, was used of ‘running into’ ills of any kind.” How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Edoardo Sanguineti, one of 's leading intellectuals, who has died aged 79, was primarily a poet but also made his mark as a playwright, literary critic, academic and essayist. Edoardo Sanguineti obituary 2010-05-26T17:23:00Z The opera keeps shifting from grim domestic battles to fantastical literary flights, including a scene with a singing trio of noted literary critics who had panned “The Iceman Cometh.” Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z As it happens, there is such a system: it was invented by the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye, and laid out in his 1947 masterwork, “Anatomy of Criticism.” A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Echoing an argument made by the eminent literary critic Harold Bloom, Garber claims for literature a sort of stem cell-like power to generate fresh and new imaginative experiences in those who read it. New book asks whether literature still matters 2011-03-28T11:36:12Z Seems that before he became a pre-eminent literary critic, he was a really swell guy, a hell of a pal. ‘The Underclassman’ Is Based on Early Fitzgerald 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Paulhan, granddaughter of Jean Paulhan, a literary critic and pillar of the literary Resistance, said the French exhibition needed to be longer and denser than the U.S. version, which displayed only 200 items. Exhibitions: Occupation of France During World War II Revisited in Words 2011-06-08T12:05:29Z Kersten, the latest biographer of an iconic American fighter, talks with literary critic Winslow. What to see at the Printers Row Lit Fest 2011-06-03T15:17:00Z To the contrary, Mr. Pratchett was generally indifferent toward literary critics of the fantasy genre, and when serious minds took his work seriously, they tended to validate his legitimate literary standing. Terry Pratchett, Popular Fantasy Novelist, Dies at 66 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z In conversation, he compared Hales to the literary critic Francis Fergusson: both men, he said, possess “an acute, practical, deep sense of action as a movement of the soul.” When Robert Pinsky Wrote a Video Game 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Alice Kessler-Harris, author of the 2012 “A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman,” notes that literary critic and liberal activist Irving Howe used to spit when he spoke of Hellman. Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The newest trove includes some of Hemingway's personal correspondence, including a letter that literary critic Malcolm Cowley wrote to Hemingway about the award-winning book. Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK Library 2013-05-06T21:27:08Z If there were a half dozen good literary critics around, all writing would be better. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In addition to writing her novels and nonfiction, she has been a prolific art and literary critic — she’s written more than 100 book reviews for The New York Times alone. ‘I’m Easily Bored by Books,’ Says Writer of 22 Novels 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z A literary critic and gifted essayist, Moustafa brings his formidable skills as a reader of texts to his analysis of contemporary political culture. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Pinckney, a respected literary critic, is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books. Review: Darryl Pinckney’s ‘Black Deutschland’ Is Set in 1980s Berlin 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Why, she asks, did he introduce Trilling as “our foremost lady literary critic?” Norman Mailer’s Snarling Encounter with Feminism, Restaged in Trump’s America 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Bakewell also confesses “a soft spot” for the early 20th-century Oxford philosopher and activist Bertrand Russell and for the Victorian literary critic Matthew Arnold, hardly fashionable figures these days. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z James Wood is famously not only among the most highly regarded literary critics of our moment, he is also one of the most beloved. James Wood’s New Novel Confronts the Mystery of Other Minds 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z This is somewhat surprising, given that I’m also the foremost literary critic of America’s imperial adventures. “The mob responds well to a toupeed con-man who talks about his penis”: Witness the Great Phallic Unraveling of 2016 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Epstein’s friendship with the literary critic Edmund Wilson led to another publishing innovation. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Two decades of insight from a top literary critic, including previously collected essays as well as work for The New Yorker and others. New & Noteworthy 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic will join the likes of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy who are either buried or commemorated in the famous location. Narnia author Lewis to be honored at Poets' Corner 2012-11-22T15:36:55Z And owning a tower — a castle, if you like – would satisfy what the literary critic T. R. Henn referred to as Yeats’s desire for “cultivated aristocracy.” The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But his relationship to its events might best be exemplified by the literary critic Lionel Trilling. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z I'm classically trained as a literary critic, like I'm PhD in English from Princeton. "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z It made him the leading literary critic of his generation. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z “I love my worldliness, my snobbery, my ease,” the great literary critic Alfred Kazin confided to his journal in 1959, when he was 43. Books of The Times: A Lifetime of Anxiety and Lust 2011-05-25T22:16:59Z This, in turn, suggests a bigger problem — that, as the literary critic Harold Bloom once insisted, "In the United States, satire is no longer possible. America has turned into a satire of itself." Has America turned into a spoof of itself? 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In his latest book, the classics scholar, translator, memoirist and literary critic Mendelsohn writes about teaching a course on the “Odyssey” to a group of students that includes his 81-year-old father, Jay. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. once described it as a “scene of instruction.” Prince Harry Finally Takes On White Privilege: His Own 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Early in his career, James Wood, the commanding, occasionally contentious literary critic at The New Yorker — once anointed “the last critic” — used a pseudonym. In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z But Schreiber, a Berlin-based art and literary critic, is wary of the ways in which Sontag created a mythology for herself. Books to Watch Out For: August 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Throughout the impeachment hearings, historians and political scientists have been hogging the limelight with their sage commentary, but really this is a crisis designed for literary critics. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The literary critic Terry Eagleton suggested that Samuel Beckett’s “starved words, gaunt bodies and sterile landscapes” were informed by memories of the Irish famine. Jacques Pépin and the Art of Making the Most of It 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z But then a serial killer, having finished off a literary critic in a janitor's closet at Newark airport, flies to Sweden using his victim's plane ticket. Thrillers roundup – reviews 2013-07-04T09:00:00Z It's a fair bet that literary critics were shaking their heads at the amount of dross in the bestseller lists and lamenting the state of the novel back in the 1920s. In search of a good read | John Crace 2010-03-17T13:30:00Z As a literary critic, Mr. Karatani’s tastes have been encyclopedic, offering original readings of writers as eclectic as Shakespeare and Wittgenstein. Kojin Karatani Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The desire of literary critics over four centuries to solve Iago as if he were a puzzle seems to me to be missing the point. Nicholas Hytner: With Shakespeare, the play is just a starting point 2013-04-12T09:01:01Z Szymborska, also a literary critic and a translator of French poetry, published several slim volumes after Stalinist censorship was lifted in 1957. Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T23:09:00Z His family lived in Newton, Mass.; his mother was a literary critic who worked for a Russian research center at Harvard. ‘Raising Raffi,’ a Father’s Lucid Book About a Chaotic Scene 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z I made peace with the literary critics a long, long time ago. John Grisham on Judges, Innocence and the Judgments He Ignores 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z Given the political turbulence roiling the nation, the cringefest of recent years calls to mind the concept of “cultural cringe,” coined by the Australian literary critic A.A. That’s So Cringe! 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z There are only a handful of grand-master literary critics in action at any one time in the English-speaking world. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z The cause was complications of heart disease, Nicholas Birns, a literary critic and friend, said. Samuel Menashe, New York Poet of Short Verse, Dies at 85 2011-08-24T03:55:46Z As literary critics, as academics, why on Earth wouldn't we want to come to grips with these texts? Harry Potter and the order of the 60 scholars gets mixed initial reception 2012-05-18T14:32:19Z Worse, Blackett was a dashing, glamorous figure, described by literary critic IA Richards as a "young Oedipus". A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z James Fenton, an English poet and literary critic, longtime contributor to The Review and friend of Mr. Buruma’s, said he believed the editor was unhappy about leaving. New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The literary critic Northrop Frye once called Toronto a good place to mind your own business—a trait that must seem pretty attractive to Meghan and Harry right now. The Charms of Toronto for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The writer was also a respected Oxford scholar and literary critic, while his book Mere Christianity was adapted from a series of BBC radio broadcasts, which sought to explain Christian teachings to a wider audience. Poets' Corner honour for CS Lewis 2013-11-22T15:58:44Z In 1848, 31 years after Austen's death, Charlotte Brontë picked up "Pride and Prejudice" on the recommendation of friend and literary critic George Henry Lewes. 7 people who hated Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Bayley spent most of his career as a professor and literary critic at the University of Oxford. John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Among them is Lev Danilkin, one of Moscow's most admired and feared literary critics. Russia's cosmonauts of dystopia 2011-04-08T19:00:01Z According to Franco Moretti, a literary critic and Stanford professor, Dracula embodies a horrifying acquisitiveness: he is “impelled toward . . .continuous growth.” Are Vampires Cancelled? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z She’s revered by literary critics and her peers for her spare, direct and confessional verses. ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z He was interviewed by a veteran literary critic, and no recording or filming was allowed by the media or the audience of 500 who won seats by a lottery. In rare appearance, Murakami talks about new book 2013-05-06T18:31:05Z One of the problems was that spooks and plods aren't literary critics. British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review 2013-03-07T12:00:01Z Power, a literary critic in London, surely must have been thinking of Graham Greene’s “The Third Man” when he wrote this elegant suspense novel. Review | ‘A Lonely Man’ is an elegant suspense novel in the tradition of the ‘The Third Man’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z “Here I am, a paid-up, card-carrying literary critic and I’ve forgotten that authors write books in order to give pleasure,” he wrote in his memoir. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Gornick’s also a crucial feminist thinker, literary critic, and something of an oral historian. Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with Jonathan Lethem 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Well, there’s an interesting situation going on wherein literary critics are intimately involved in producing the literary phenomenon that is the field of digital literature. After e-literature, there’s no going back 2012-10-29T11:30:00Z As a consequence, Clark came to believe — like his friend the literary critic Cyril Connolly — that he had never quite lived up to his gifts. The man who brought humanist values — and ‘Civilisation’ — to a mass market 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Oxford English professor and literary critic Hermione Lee was made a dame, the female equivalent of a knight. Adele honored by Queen Elizabeth II 2013-06-14T21:56:14Z In 1959, the literary critic George Steiner published a book called “Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.” Knausgaard or Ferrante? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s exacting work that has given rise to a cottage industry of independent contractors who are part literary critics, part actors, part sound engineers. Review | What does passion sound like? How five audiobook actors talk sexy. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The Library of America published a collection of Lovecraft’s best works in 2005, and today literary critics, and even philosophers, are finally beginning to pay attention to this defiantly unfashionable writer. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z And she remained an insightful cultural and literary critic who published a new collection of her essays and speeches just a few months ago in “The Source of Self-Regard.” Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z "If the mass of unargued opinion chokes off literary critics ... then literature will be the lesser for it," he said. Books bloggers are harming literature, warns Booker prize head judge 2012-09-25T16:10:23Z “For the modern reader, I think, it is very important to understand how light and total darkness existed at the same time,” said Russian literary critic Galina Yuzefovich. Russian novel tells story of survival, love in Stalin’s camp 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Pasti started as a literary critic and then began collecting strange fragments and rare bulbs, which he would plant in his garden in the Moroccan countryside, and also in pots at his house in Tangier. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z "As somebody interested in literary criticism, it's pathetic that so-called literary critics are abusing my judges and me," she told the Guardian newspaper. Author Barnes backed for Booker amid literary spat 2011-10-17T14:41:11Z It is a bilingual edition of verse by the 54-year-old Chinese dissident and literary critic. Poetry by jailed Nobel winner coming to US in 2012 2010-12-09T15:02:00Z In his seminal essay “The Death of the Author,” French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes argues that a text’s meaning can neither be derived from its author’s biographical information nor from his intent. Best of Salon: Why “The Sopranos” final scene haunts us still 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z I think it appeals to people who read for entertainment but also to literary critics and teachers, readers of Derrida and deconstruction – people who have read the works that are alluded to in its pages. After e-literature, there’s no going back 2012-10-29T11:30:00Z In 2007, the literary critic James Wood meditated on the Chilean author’s legacy in a review of the English translation of Bolaño’s “The Savage Detectives.” Revisiting Roberto Bolaño — ‘the Visceral Realist’ 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The literary critic Bernard Pivot called the book “a brave confession both painful and invigorating.” Françoise Hardy, a French National Treasure, Is Back from the Brink 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z He is, in a sense, less a literary critic than an extraordinarily well-rounded humanist, unapologetic in his belief that “reading should be a pleasure.” Michael Dirda’s ‘Browsings’ offers meditations on the life of the mind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z In a cunning pre-emptive strike, he also makes passing reference to the "caprice" of "literary critics". Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2012-05-18T21:54:01Z Mr. Carpenter took the lead in editing Explorations, the interdisciplinary journal that grew out of the seminar; it published writers like the anthropologist Dorothy Lee and the literary critic Northrop Frye. Edmund Carpenter, Archaelogist and Anthropologist, Dies at 88 2011-07-07T23:15:41Z The French literary critic Philippe Lejeune observed that people tend to keep diaries in one of two circumstances: in adolescence, or when they are experiencing “moments of crisis,” whether personal or social. Ukrainians Turn to Diaries for Solace, and to Share Life in Wartime 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z His father, Gilbert Seldes, was a writer and literary critic whose 1924 book, “The 7 Lively Arts,” was one of the first critical studies praising jazz, cartoons and other forms of popular culture. Timothy Seldes, editor and literary agent, dies at 88 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Moore is a literary critic whose latest book is “William Gaddis.” A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z When Han Kang’s surreal, violent novel “The Vegetarian” was published in South Korea nearly a decade ago, literary critics found it baffling. ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Every single literary critic in the traditional media seemed to agree that Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, his saga of a dysfunctional American family, was the novel of the epoch. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z A blog can explore a book at a length that all but the most prominent literary critics would envy. Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism 2012-09-26T15:37:00Z “The House of God” is “not a great book,” the literary critic Kathryn Montgomery has written, “but it is an important book.” “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z To this end, Scott quotes the mid-century literary critic Leslie Fiedler, whose classic book “Love and Death in the American Novel” is essentially a long engagement with the fundamental childishness of American fiction. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Photograph: Courtesy Anita Kermode died on Tuesday afternoon and, over the days since then, the term "greatest literary critic" has been much bandied around. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z The literary critic George Steiner wrote that the book “gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce’s Dublin or Kafka’s Prague.” Read Your Way Through Lisbon 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The literary critic DJ Taylor described his lyrics on the 1998 album This is Hardcore as 'one of those rare occasions when a pop artist transforms himself without irony into an artist proper'. From Pulp to Prokofiev: Jarvis Cocker narrates Peter and the Wolf 2010-12-29T17:57:43Z Venturi was argumentative, but in the manner of a literary critic: he was a close reader of buildings. Remembering Robert Venturi, the Close Reader of Architecture 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z You don't read a literary critic to explain why a new Ian Rankin is any good – the people who know about him don't need that explaining. Books bloggers are harming literature, warns Booker prize head judge 2012-09-25T16:10:23Z A few literary critics have taken aim at Ms. Jong’s self-referential style and habit of recycling material. Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Gubar is a literary critic and one of the few who can claim to have made a lasting difference. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Indeed, the literary critic Harold Bloom wrote in a New York Times review that “Mr. Yehoshua writes in the shadow of Faulkner, with an admixture of Joyce.” A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In the mid-1940s, Jackson and her husband, literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, set up house in Bennington, Vt., where they raised their four children. Book review: ‘Shirley,’ by Susan Scarf Merrell He should have watched some comedians instead, but apparently they can safely be ignored by a literary critic. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z William Empson was a major British literary critic, but also a superb poet and memorable eccentric — I once spent an afternoon with him that ended with us in a pub playing Shove Ha’penny. A treasure trove for book lovers: Michael Dirda picks books about books 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z During Niebuhr's lifetime his admirers included the literary critic Lionel Trilling, the associate justice of the US supreme court Felix Frankfurter, the English economic historian RH Tawney, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others. Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z These days, I find, literary novelists are much more interested in plot and much less interested in plausibility, or in realism, than literary critics are. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z Because I’m a literary critic, I tend to gravitate toward pieces about books, writers and culture, which of course leaves vast expanses of territory uncovered. 2014′s best of the literary Web: From “Mansplanation Nation” to “The Original ‘Gone Girl’” 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Lessing's departure into science fiction in the late 1970s raised some predictably snobbish responses from literary critics, one writing that she "propagandises on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz". Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z He’s stewing in unresolved issues with his father, a renowned literary critic who hasn’t called him in 15 years. ‘Lucky Hank’ Review: Better Call Solecism 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z That might sound like a cynical capitulation to pure partisanship, but once again, the literary critics got here before us. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The literary critic Steven Moore, who wrote a blurb for “Cow Country” after the author sent him a copy, was likewise unequivocal regarding Mr. Winslow’s claims. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z To this new project, she brings equally honed skills as a historian, literary critic and biographer. Review: ‘Looking for “The Stranger,”’ the Making of an Existential Masterpiece 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The comments drew condemnation from many, including the English literary critic Terry Eagleton, who called them “stomach-churning” and said they resembled those of “a British National Party thug.” Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Australian James is best known for his hit show Clive James On Television and has had a long career as a literary critic and journalist. Clive James up for Costa award 2013-11-27T02:06:32Z And Rimington said literary critics who knock the Booker are being "pathetic." Literary lion Barnes leads Booker Prize finalists 2011-10-18T12:04:09Z In the same vein, Polonius might describe Dromgoole as foodie, travel writer, gossipy theatrical memoirist, literary critic, political commentator and, compounded with all these, comedian — usually, like the best comedians, laughing at himself. For this globe-trotting Hamlet, all the world’s a stage 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The literary critic Yvor Winters might have derided the project as relying on “the fallacy of imitative form,” but you’d be hard-pressed to achieve the same disorienting effect in another way. The Film That Yields Nothing on a Second Viewing—or a First 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z His clients include a fiery Manhattan literary critic who is trying to rebuild her life after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Ben Kingsley: why I now know that women make the best directors of men 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z He was nominated for the honor by a panel of authors and literary critics. ArtsBeat: New Literary Prize Goes to Old Pro DeLillo 2013-04-25T15:00:32Z The selection, by Hayden, was based on nominations from previous winners, other authors and literary critics. Annie Proulx wins Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Born in Australia, James moved to England in 1961, and rose to prominence as a literary critic and television columnist. Clive James is 'saying goodbye' 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Judd Apatow partly built a career on a zaftig variation of what the literary critic Leslie A. Fiedler called the Good Bad Boy, those imps who eventually shed their mischievousness for domesticated normalcy. FILM: Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men 2011-07-27T12:00:10Z The eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton has a more radical suggestion. Do you hate football and want to help the poor? Take up gambling 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z The literary critic Adam Kirsch characterizes the book as provocative. Amos Oz on His Novel ‘Judas,’ Which Challenges Views of a Traitor 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z If you want to get scholarly about it, you could stretch the tradition even further, following literary critics like Leslie Fiedler and D.H. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z There is no publicized short list for the prize and nominations are kept secret for 50 years, so literary critics and journalists worldwide are reduced to an annual October ritual of frenzied speculation. Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature Goes with a Well-Known Name 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z A literary critic once said that a family is but an increment of historical time. Fashion Review: The Stage Is Big, and Lagerfeld Fills It 2010-10-05T22:56:00Z Some literary critics complained that the long lists diluted the impact of the prize. National Book Award Goes to Phil Klay for His Short Story Collection 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z “If the phrase ‘greatest living poet in the English language’ has any meaning,” the literary critic Nicholas Lezard wrote in The Guardian of London, “we should use it now.” Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Instead, she's quietly been establishing herself as one of the most penetrating literary critics of our time. 2009-12-10T17:55:00Z There’s a nice question here for literary critics. Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z While some literary critics have started to grumble about post-apocalyptic-fiction fatigue, publishers, agents and authors are betting that readers’ appetite for cataclysm is nowhere near sated. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Referring to “Hamlet,” he writes, “Do you know how many literary critics love that play more than they love people?” Books of The Times: Poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, Lightsey Darst and Others 2010-07-22T22:18:00Z He attended the landmark Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris in 1956, and he became close friends with the Marxist literary critic C.L.R. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z "Fierce reader" probably captures the distinction of Kermode's achievement more accurately than "great literary critic", a compliment which would, probably, have elicited from him a slightly contemptuous shrug, if not a shudder. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z He wanted to inoculate himself against literary critics who might sneer at him for writing a slicker, more commercial book. Richard Price Finds His Pseudonym for ‘The Whites’ Annoying 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Her books had sold in the millions yet she was reviled by many academics and literary critics. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Mr. Begley is a gifted literary critic but does not deploy his knife skills to great effect here. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z He published a new volume every year or two, drawing praise from such eminent literary critics as Helen Vendler of Harvard University and Harold Bloom of Yale University. Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z At another point, in the early 1970s, he turned to religion – not as a believer, but a literary critic – examining Bible stories using state-of-the-art narratology, many of whose techniques he had himself patented. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z Isherwood is not a particularly adept or persuasive literary critic in his diaries, but his enthusiasms are vital. Books of The Times: Isherwood?s Singular Second Wind 2010-12-01T16:58:00Z Some writers and literary critics see added value in a more complex, and flawed, version of Atticus. Racism of Atticus Finch in ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Could Alter Harper Lee’s Legacy 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z While Dickens appears to have added the "smoking" to the name, the English literary critic George Saintsbury hypothesized in his 1920 "Notes on a Cellar-Book" that it was born at Oxford University. 5 historical hot cocktails that are perfect for cold weather 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z He’s a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. ‘Excellent Sheep,’ William Deresiewicz’s Manifesto 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The polymath Raymond Tallis … doctor, gerontologist, philosopher, literary critic and novelist. In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections by Raymond Tallis – review 2012-07-06T21:55:07Z His reticence hasn’t stopped scholars and literary critics from dissecting his prose and themes. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z His most essential quality, the literary critic Alfred Kazin is quoted as saying, was “that of the man who is always making and remaking himself.” Books of The Times: ‘JFK’s Last Hundred Days,’ by Thurston Clarke 2013-08-12T21:23:16Z Poet Robert Lowell and his wife, literary critic and author Elizabeth Hardwick, discussed the idea with editor and publisher Jason Epstein and his wife, Barbara. Scorsese pays homage to New York Review of Books in '50 Year Argument' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z That last point of his is a typical Phillips formulation, the result of a mix-up between a close-reading literary critic and a psychoanalyst. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review 2013-07-09T11:19:15Z In her study of her father, the literary critic Clifton Fadiman, the author uses his infatuation with wine to explore the motivations that guide connoisseurship and hedonism. New in Paperback: ‘Elastic,’ ‘Brass’ 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Todd, a biographer and literary critic, also plays with making this a meta-novel. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z He was well aware that certain august literary critics — among them, Harold Bloom — thought honoring a popular horror writer was idiotic. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Latino literary critics called those claims outrageous and launched a counter campaign to get Anaya’s work and others by Latino authors into Arizona for community libraries near schools where the book was banned. Rudolfo Anaya, ‘godfather’ of Chicano literature, dies at 82 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Most literary critics would be too self-conscious to write a passage like his Swift-swoon about their own favorite author, much less a millennial pop star. Taylor Swift joins Rilke in Michael Robbins' 'Equipment for Living,' reviewed by Justin Taylor 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Steven Moore is a literary critic whose latest book is “My Back Pages: Reviews and Essays.” Finally, a novel that looks like a 21st-century production 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The story drew mixed reviews from literary critics. Type(writer) Casting: A Book of Short Stories From Tom Hanks 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Henry Louis Gates Jr., the literary critic and historian, called Mr. McPherson one of the “literary heirs” of Mr. Ellison, who died in 1994. James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer, Dies at 72 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z But he is able to create fictional works that enter equally into his own mind and the minds of others, even when those others are killers, or hypocrites, or madmen, or literary critics. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z Bourdain’s repeated signaling of the “authenticity” problem echoes an argument made in the 1970s by literary critic Lionel Trillling regarding the rise of “authenticity” as the measure of moral fitness in public life. The kimchi revolution: How Korean-American chefs are changing food culture 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z In his fiction Golding would become a laureate of humiliation, writes Mr. Carey, a well-known British literary critic, biographer and academic. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z In 1960, the literary critic Leslie Fiedler delivered a eulogy for the ghost story in his classic study “Love and Death in the American Novel.” The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z A literary critic, professor, and poet, Liu Xiaobo had been an unwavering voice against the authoritarianism of the Chinese Communist Party for more than two decades. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z “Upstate,” a new novel by the literary critic James Wood, brought this into focus for me as never before. Review | What does a father most want for his children? James Wood’s novel shows us. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z As a literary critic for the past 13 years, it's not a question I've liked to ponder too much. How writers review their critics 2010-09-22T09:47:00Z He built on the insights of the groundbreaking literary critic Es’kia Mphahlele, who accused Europeans like Conrad of depicting Africans as acted on by history instead of making it. The Contradictions of Joseph Conrad 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Targoff proves herself as good a popular historian as she is a literary critic. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “But he’s not a movie critic, nor is he a literary critic, and sometimes there’s a greater truth we aspire to. It’s not the facts on the ground.” ‘Lost City of Z’ alters history for the sake of modern audiences. Are we okay with that? 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Lovecraft’s higher visibility has come after a radical reassessment by literary critics. How to Find the Spirit of H.P. Lovecraft in Providence 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z This is not to say that an Esquire editor who reads the literary critic Christopher Ricks for fun in airports has any plans to scuttle Esquire’s prized long-form literary tradition to fit Twitter attention spans. The ‘Esquire Man’ Is Dead. Long Live the ‘Esquire Man.’ 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Harvard literary critic Helen Vendler once wrote of his work: “Is there any compelling reason why it should be called poetry?” Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Professor Bloom was frequently called the most notorious literary critic in America. Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Louis Dudek, a literary critic who focused on modernist poetry, once described Mr. Hine’s poetry as “a series of extremely recherché, abstract, contrived word forms, containing oblique and ambiguous philosophical essays and meditations.” Daryl Hine, 76, Poet, Editor and Translator 2012-08-25T03:43:30Z Ellmann was one of the great literary critics of the last century and his biography, though long, implies a great deal more than it says. James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker - review 2011-08-05T21:55:01Z A recounting of an intricate, lurid caper, in the form of a confession by its anti-hero, Huff, the story and Cain's hard-edge prose style appealed to readers — if not so much to pulp-averse literary critics. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z In On Balance, the psychoanalyst and literary critic Adam Phillips notes how Anna Freud famously said, “In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can’t eat them.” I fall for strangers: I thought my fantasies made me writerly and special — it took decades to see how they were ruining my life 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z From the moment he first appeared in "Devil in a Blue Dress" in 1990, Easy Rawlins, was an instant favorite of discerning readers and literary critics alike. Review: Easy Rawlins returns in `Little Green' 2013-05-15T17:37:17Z Founded in 1974, the National Book Critics Circle is made up of more than 600 literary critics and book review editors in the United States. National Book Critics Circle Names 2020 Award Winners 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Empson’s recently rediscovered essay about sculptural depictions of the Buddha is the work of a passionate amateur who just happens to be the most dazzling literary critic of the 20th century. Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The films’ source material often seemed plucked from a graduate-level syllabus, drawing from the likes of Bertolt Brecht, the novelist and literary critic Elio Vittorini and the operas of the atonal composer Arnold Schoenberg. Jean-Marie Straub, Uncompromising Filmmaker, Is Dead at 89 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z At St Paul's, her students are also invited to become literary critics and cast judgement on the stock in their school library. Book Week: Could you get through 180 books in a year? 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z While Shibli’s Minor Detail has been smeared as being anti-Semitic by two journalists and literary editors, other serious literary critics have clearly refuted this in the German press and elsewhere. More than 600 sign open letter decrying cancellation of German event for Palestinian author 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Epstein is one of the most prolific literary critics in America, having published 17 collections of reviews, profiles and essays — a preeminent expert on the novel, in other words. Yet another critic on the Death of the Novel: What he and everyone else are missing 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z This book club night also features a special appearance by Seattle librarian, author and literary critic Nancy Pearl, the only librarian with her own action figure. How to watch bestselling author Luis Alberto Urrea at the L.A. Times Book Club 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The author, years before, of a well reviewed but unsuccessful novel, he’s the estranged son of a literary critic so esteemed his retirement is front-page news. 'Lucky Hank' review: Bob Odenkirk stars in a dark comedy about academia 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z As the literary critic Scott Saul points out, though, the novel is also very much of its time. The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z “The Critic’s Daughter” — Priscilla Gilman’s reflection on her relationship with her father, the famed literary critic Richard Gilman — is an odd contribution to the genre in that it’s more of a tribute. Review | A memoir about a godlike father and the literary scene he ruled over 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z In addition to writing novels and memoirs, Ms. Grumbach taught English literature and worked as a literary critic, contributing to publications including the Times, the Saturday Review and Commonweal. Doris Grumbach, versatile novelist and literary critic, dies at 104 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z When exploring the “problematic appeal of this play’s violence,” literary critic Cynthia Marshall asks, “Why would an audience, any audience, enjoy Titus’s reiteration of violence against the human body?” Why Do People Love Gross and Scary Things? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Eliot escaped into work, a banker by day and literary critic by night, until he suffered a breakdown that sent him to a sanatorium in Switzerland. Opinion | ‘The Waste Land,’ T.S. Eliot’s primal scream, resonates 100 years on 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Plotting is one thing, but it’s not the only thing, as any literary critic will tell you. Review | ‘The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry’: Too much story, not enough life 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z But historians, political analysts and literary critics were hardly bewildered by the book’s success, for two main reasons. How the Starr Report became a literary bodice ripper — and bestseller 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Los Angeles literary critic Robert Kirsch called the book “so compelling and complete as to be a literary monument … that sort of work which brings us to the human center of the past.” David McCullough, master chronicler of American history, dies at 89 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Black Harvard literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. will oversee the three-year project for Oxford Languages to compile the “Oxford Dictionary of African American English,” the publisher said in a news release Thursday. Oxford announces ‘African American English’ dictionary, Harvard’s Gates to oversee 3-year project 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Howard graduated from high school in Shaker Heights outside Cleveland and studied English literature at Columbia University, dazzled by professors including the poet Mark Van Doren and literary critics F.W. Richard Howard, Pulitzer-winning poet and translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Steven Moore is a literary critic who moonlights as an indexer. Review | Sure, Google is handy, but what about the mighty book index? 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Imagining her disappointment put me in mind of a passage from a wonderful essay by literary critic James Wood. Perspective | The freedom that comes with living our own stories He went on to study literature and Hispanic studies before becoming a professor and a literary critic. Roberto Bolaño inspired him to write. Now Alejandro Zambra is the next Chilean breakthrough 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Guenther used to be an English professor and literary critic, specializing in the Renaissance. Why words matter in the fight against climate change 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Affable and a noted gourmand, Mr. Epstein struck up friendships with generations of writers, including Wilson, who had been a prominent literary critic since the 1920s. Jason Epstein, publishing executive who shaped literary tastes, dies at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The editor was stunned to discover the letter was signed by a Dennis E. Smith, who identified himself not as a literary critic or public intellectual but as a Bronx fireman. Dennis Smith, Firefighter Who Wrote Bestsellers, Dies at 81 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z James M. Cain’s was the cool, assessing eye of the writer of “Double Indemnity” and “The Postman Always Rings Twice” — the “poet of the tabloid murder” is what one literary critic called him. You've noticed it, right? There's just something about L.A.’s light 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, till recently, I wasn’t so keen about Eliot the essayist and literary critic. Review | T.S. Eliot may have been flawed, but a new book reminds of his greatness on the page 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z I never thought of Newsom as a literary critic, and I’m certainly not. Didion was unequaled at capturing California’s soul, its people and geography 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Over the summer, Nelson had been working on a contribution to a proposed volume of essays honoring the literary critic and queer theorist Judith Butler. Maggie Nelson Wants to Redefine ‘Freedom’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z We need, as the literary critic Frank Kermode titled one of his books, “the sense of an ending.” Opinion | Don’t compound the Afghanistan mistake by fighting the last war 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z One of the fiercest literary critics of her age and a brilliant novelist, Hardwick had her suffering exposed in ex-husband Robert Lowell’s “The Dolphin Letters.” The 30 books we're most anticipating this fall 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Reginald Gibbons is a poet, writer, translator, literary critic and professor at Northwestern University. Poem: Triage 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The literary critic Edward Said once wrote, “Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special.” Opinion | The Vacuous Phrase at the Core of Biden’s Foreign Policy 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z The poet and literary critic Fred Moten, who has been a friend and interlocutor of Nelson’s for about a decade, described her as a thinker with little use for hard and fast rules. Maggie Nelson Wants to Redefine ‘Freedom’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Although some literary critics were skeptical of Bailey’s book, the biography also drew coverage and praise from some corners. Norton takes Philip Roth biography out of print 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Several literary critics seized on the fact that in the biography, Bailey brushed off Roth’s mistreatment of women. Philip Roth’s biographer accused of sexual assault 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z It is thanks only to Bailey, for example, that I know Alfred Kazin, the great literary critic, found Roth an insufferable bore. If 'Philip Roth: The Biography' leaves you hating its subject, thank Blake Bailey 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Writer and literary critic Ruth Franklin made the same observation. Ginsburg tributes: 'A warrior for gender equality' 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z "Mourning doesn't necessarily exclude soul-searching, but now is time to mourn," said Paik Nak-chung, a literary critic who helped lead the funeral. Dead Seoul mayor accused of four-year harassment 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z “Mourning doesn’t necessarily exclude soul-searching, but now is time to mourn,” said Paik Nak-chung, a literary critic who helped lead the funeral. Funeral of mayor of South Korean capital held amid allegations of sexual abuse 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z He is a historian, literary critic, author and essayist as well as a longtime columnist for the Irish Times. America the "pitiful": Fintan O'Toole on how our once-great nation devolved into "Trumpland" 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Emily Steinlight, a literary critic at the University of Pennsylvania, notes that the peril of proximity in the lives of the poor is a theme as old as the works of Charles Dickens. The Coronavirus Class Divide: Space and Privacy 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z In 1992, the literary critic Harold Bloom declared in “The American Religion” that the United States is “the most apocalyptic of nations.” Perspective | Prepping for coronavirus is just like prepping for Doomsday 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Immensely erudite, but with a flair that drew hordes of students to his lectures, Dr. Steiner was the rare literary critic whose scholarship was celebrated and debated far beyond the austere silence of university libraries. George Steiner, renowned literary critic, dies at 90 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z He started his academic life as a literary critic and cultural historian. Tom Lutz fights for L.A. publishing, this time as a novelist 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Described by literary critic Maya Jaggi as "a polyglot and polymath", Steiner was a divisive figure. Literary critic George Steiner dies aged 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z “Nothing much happens in these stories that hasn’t happened to any of us,” literary critic Malcolm Jones wrote in a review for the New York Times. Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z In important ways, Dr. Mazzucato’s work resembles that of a literary critic or rhetorician as much as an economist. Meet the Leftish Economist With a New Story About Capitalism 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It was the duty of a professor or literary critic, he observed, to say, “This is the real thing. Here’s why. Please read it, read it.” George Steiner, renowned literary critic, dies at 90 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z After abandoning studies for a doctorate, Mr. James made his breakthrough as a writer with a 1972 essay in the Times Literary Supplement about the American literary critic Edmund Wilson. Clive James, Australian-born TV host, writer, critic and all-around wit, dies at 80 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z My immediate supervisor was in his fifties and had studied comparative literature under the Palestinian-American literary critic Edward Said, one of my heroes at Columbia, where I had just got my bachelor’s degree. My Life as a Child Chef 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The US literary critic, Harold Bloom, who died last week aged 89, was a classic example of someone old-fashioned in both ways. Harold Bloom’s defence of western greats blinded him to other cultures | Kenan Malik 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z No American literary critic had ever reached so wide an audience. Harold Bloom obituary 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z As the literary critic Leo Spitzer once wrote, “the humanist believes in the power of the human mind of investigating the human mind.” How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Alvarez, who sometimes wrote under the name A. Alvarez, cultivated a reputation as a swashbuckling adrenaline seeker as well as an accomplished poet, novelist and literary critic. Al Alvarez, British critic and author who championed poetry and poker, dies at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z I am not literary critic, but found it very sharp, very concise. 'I genuinely felt she was talking to me': readers review Margaret Atwood's The Testaments 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Scientists and literary critics and chess masters, intent on spotting hidden patterns, may benefit from being mildly paranoid. Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Obama described her as “one of our nation’s most distinguished storytellers,” a judgment that was nearly unanimous among literary critics. Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate who transfigured American literature, dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z According to many critics, conservatism has been in danger of falling into the state that literary critic Lionel Trilling ascribed to it in 1950, espousing “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.” Opinion | Conservatives haven’t had a good villain since the Cold War. Until now. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z A former writing professor at Yale, Milch was mentored there by poet, novelist and literary critic Robert Penn Warren and later by Steven Bochco in Hollywood. Robin Weigert talks about Calamity Jane, ‘Deadwood’ and the ailing David Milch 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But what sticks with young people today, say literary critics and fans, are his twin fascination with diversity and the natural world, both of which are strained themes for America’s youth. Walt Whitman’s legacy stronger than ever in American classrooms 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z But literary critics are likely to be less forgiving. Newt Gingrich resists irrelevance with new novel ripped from headlines 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Walton is a prodigious and talented literary critic, with a gift for showing how books reflect the personal strengths and weaknesses of their authors. Like ‘Groundhog Day’ in hell, ‘Lent’ traces the recurring lives of a heretic monk 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The influential literary critic and novelist William Dean Howells, the “dean of American letters,” perfectly captured the effect of Veblen’s gleeful, poker-faced scientific style in an awestruck review. The man who saw Trump coming a century ago 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Though the book is organized by broad themes—“Repulsion,” “Stigma,” “Possession”—Dworkin is most at home in the specific, when she’s conducting extensive close readings in the mode of an old-school literary critic. The Radical Style of Andrea Dworkin 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Eliot, the literary critic Helen Vendler wrote in the New York Times. W.S. Merwin, poet of austere lyricism who twice won the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Speak to writers in Norway as I did, and a clear consensus forms: Ullmann was the most important literary critic of her generation, a James Wood of Norwegian writing. ‘I Don’t Want My Writing to Be Charming’ 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Despite being an Episcopalian, Miles says he writes not as a religious believer but as a literary critic, and so he approaches the Koran as he does the Bible. Review | Comparing the Bible’s mercurial God with the Koran’s grandfatherly Allah 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z My parents were both well-known writers; my father a literary critic, my mother a poet and translator. 'I trembled with shock': my brush with the rapist at the heart of the Nobel scandal 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Frank Guan is a literary critic whose reviews have recently appeared in Bookforum, Dissent and The Nation. What Could Be Wrong With a Little ‘Moral Clarity’? 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z One morning this fall, at his home high in the Berkeley hills, the literary critic and translator Robert Alter chatted with me about the dilemmas he faced while translating the Hebrew Bible. After More Than Two Decades of Work, a New Hebrew Bible to Rival the King James 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z In the early 1980s, still the heyday of the bodice ripper, literary critic Janice Radway set out to prove the haters wrong. Perspective | Stacey Abrams embraces progressive politics. Even in her romance novels. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The daughter of well-to-do Californians, she married a literary critic called Stanley Hyman while young; they eventually settled in an academic town in Vermont where their circle included JD Salinger, Bernard Malamud and Ralph Ellison. Agoraphobia and an unhappy marriage: the real horror behind The Haunting of Hill House 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Sand appreciation is still stuck in what Naomi Schor, a feminist literary critic, called the “autobiographical stage”. George Sand’s unfinished legacy 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The disregard for honesty in the Trump era, with its ever-changing menu of “alternative facts,” is eliciting new research and polemics from philosophers, literary critics, political analysts and social scientists. Can truth survive this president? An honest investigation. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z She was a literary critic who focused on Russian literature and had been in our family the person most attached to Russia. Opinion | Russia Was My Obscure Interest. Now Everyone Is Paying Attention. 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Burgess, a former literary critic of the Observer, wrote the first two Enderby books in the house, as well as Nothing Like the Sun, a novel about Shakespeare’s love-life narrated in Elizabethan English. Kupet a domy: Anthony Burgess’s Clockwork Orange house for sale 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z “Lives into stories, stories into lives,” observed the literary critic and biographer Hermione Lee, “that’s the name of Roth’s double game.” ‘I did the best I could with what I had…’: writers on the Philip Roth they knew 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Another master of Middle East affairs, the late literary critic Edward W. Said, described Dr. Lewis as a peddler of old-school dictums about the need for a strong guiding hand with the region. Bernard Lewis, eminent historian of the Middle East, dies at 101 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z But his fans included millions of book-buyers, literary critics and fellow authors. Remembering author Tom Wolfe, ‘a magician’ with words 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z James Wood, a prominent literary critic and professor at Harvard, said taking a timeout would be the right thing to do. Will There Be a Nobel Prize in Literature This Year? 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z He said he learned to read, seriously and deeply, while studying under literary critic Harold Bloom at Yale, where he received a doctorate in English in 1974. J.D. McClatchy, elegant poet and ‘literary polymath,’ dies at 72 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z She came from a Puritan American family and was related to Logan Pearsall Smith, the famous literary critic. How World War I Gave Women Scientists a Chance to Shine 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z There may be very young chess and math prodigies, but there are no literary critics in elementary school. Opinion | A math problem for Pi Day 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z He agreed to lengthy interviews, but maybe his most bizarre act was that he once moonlighted as a literary critic. ‘Rick is a goddamn Russian spy’: Does the CIA have a new Aldrich Ames on its hands? 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z His blunt, subversive and playful work influenced writers ranging from Thomas Merton to the Beat poets to Pablo Neruda and wowed many literary critics. Nicanor Parra, Chile’s eminent poet and ‘anti-poet,’ dies at 103 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The leading literary critic delves into depression and the meaning of existence in a novel about family relationships. 2018 in books: a literary calendar 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z A self-described bibliophile — “my life is literature,” he said — Mr. Sandoval is one of Venezuela’s foremost literary critics and a professor at two of the country’s finest universities. In a Venezuela Ravaged by Inflation, ‘A Race for Survival’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Leavis, a well-known literary critic at Cambridge University, listed him in “The Great Tradition” as being up there with Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James. Joseph Conrad, the first novelist of globalisation 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z As a writer of thrillers, he may never be embraced by some literary critics. Jack Reacher creator shares thriller secrets 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z The books are often interpreted by literary critics as one long argument against the destructive power of organized religion. Philip Pullman Returns to His Fantasy World 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z British literary critic David Lodge notes that nonfiction authors’ theft of the novelist’s tools dates back to the 19th-century writer Thomas Carlyle. Chernow’s portrait of Grant as a work of literary craftsmanship, if not art 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Kakutani was America’s most powerful literary critic, someone who, with the stroke of a pen, wielded immense influence over the careers of both budding and established novelists. The literary life of Michiko Kakutani: the book critic's best feuds and reviews 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z She was married to the illustrious literary critic Lionel Trilling, and both were members of the loose, largely Jewish group known as the New York Intellectuals. The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z He took away from his Columbia education the belief that being a serious literary critic meant holding in contempt the things that belong to Caesar. The Book That Scandalized the New York Intellectuals 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Thursdays at noon: portrait spotlight Curator Robyn Asleson discusses Thomas Hicks’s portrait “Bayard Taylor,” the American poet, literary critic, travel author and diplomat. D.C. community calendar, April 13-20, 2017 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z For that issue, he commissioned Ms. Hardwick, a literary critic, to write an extended essay on the state of book reviewing in the United States. Robert Silvers, a Founding Editor of New York Review of Books, Dies at 87 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Woolf was shockingly neglected; her present status owes not so much to literary critics as to feminism. Henry Green’s Party Going: an eccentric portrait of the idle rich 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z By the time Ronald Reagan became president in 1980, the fractious literary critic was an influential voice in Washington, especially for his writings against the Soviet Union. Norman Podhoretz Still Picks Fights and Drops Names 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Not only would this term serve movie marketers well, it would add to the lexicon of literary critics. Gloria Steinem: Women Have ‘Chick Flicks.’ What About Men? 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z “Baldwin is back,” says Harvard literary critic and historian Henry Louis Gates. 30 years after his death, James Baldwin is having a new pop culture moment 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the longtime literary critic’s book is filled with references to Virginia Woolf, Gerard Manley Hopkins and other touchstones. Opinion | ‘This Close to Happy’: The risks of going public about depression 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Speaking at the dinner, Prof Horace Engdahl of the Swedish Academy, a literary critic, said the choice "seemed daring only beforehand and already seems obvious". Bob Dylan 'honoured' to win Nobel prize for Literature - BBC News 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z They are full of love, tenderness and devotion, and expressed in a French that has literary critics baying with delight. Mitterrand seduces France again with letters to his lover - BBC News 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z If correct, Mr Gatti’s story will be of value to future literary critics. Unmasked? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z In fact, I thought their increasing influence on modern art was one of the main causes of what literary critic James Wood referred to as “the infantilization of our literary culture”. How Marvel's Iceman superhero urged me to come out 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The exception is cultural theorist and literary critic René Girard, who brilliantly investigated the role of imitation in the formation of our selves and our desires. In psychology, you’re supposed to grow out of childish narcissism. Now Donald . . . 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z “He’s signaling that it’s an important book in the day of Black Lives Matter,” said Michael Schaub, a literary critic based in Austin, Tex. President Obama’s Emotional Spotify Playlist Is a Hit 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z The literary critic Lionel Trilling noted that authentes was “not only a master and a doer, but also a perpetrator, a murderer.” What Makes a Politician ‘Authentic’? 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z One year, Mr. Schjeldahl received a warm note of thanks from Louis Menand, the literary critic and Harvard professor, who described the party as a spectacular aesthetic experience. Pyrotechnic Party of Legend, Killed Off by Social Media 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z German literary critic Bernhard Schulz also takes issue with the quality of today's political drama. European press relishes drama of Tory leadership contest - BBC News 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Her forthcoming book is tentatively titled “Tennessee Williams and Visual Culture,” and features essays by art historians, literary critics, historians, and film scholars. How Tennessee Williams Bridged Pop Culture and Fine Art 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Both musical and literary critics described Mr. Obama’s selections as “emotional,” a description rarely applied to the man himself. President Obama’s Emotional Spotify Playlist Is a Hit 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z In the spring of 1978, the literary critic Harold Bloom was invited to take part in “an amiable discussion of the rival claims of Judaism and the aesthetic” at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. Cynthia Ozick’s Long Crusade 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Ricardo Piglia, one of Argentina's foremost literary critics, argues his fictional worlds transformed the idea of fiction itself. Why Jorge Luis Borges matters 30 years after his death - BBC News 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Her brother is also a novelist, and her husband is a literary critic. Booker International Prize winner urges fellow Koreans to read more 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z According to the literary critic Frank Lentricchia, DeLillo’s novels are “cultural anatomies of what make us unhappy”, while Joyce Carol Oates has hailed him as “a man of frightening perception”. Don DeLillo: ‘I think of myself as the kid from the Bronx’ 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z From 1979 to 1985, Dr. Aaron was the founding president of the Library of America, a publishing project inspired by a French series of books of classic literature and championed by literary critic Edmund Wilson. Daniel Aaron, scholar who helped develop academic field of American studies, dies at 103 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z A linguist and literary critic prominent in the last century added to the thought by insisting that context is more important than text. What Donald Trump doesn’t know might save us: He’s unschooled, but at least he’s no American exceptionalist or neo-con ideologue 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z He was a respected lawyer, a successful dramatist and a literary critic and commentator on the arts. ‘I am ashamed to be sad’: the remarkable story of a Jewish student in 1920s Romania 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Orwell’s consolation, as a literary critic, was that he could have been something worse. Critics in the Age of Opinion 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z This, the literary critic DA Miller calls “the primal scene” of the novel, the one it “obsessively repeats and remembers”. Crime fiction in 2015: the rise of the Girl that could be any of us 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z One expects more than that from a renowned literary critic. Hate the character, but not the character development 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The rapid rise of Instapoets probably will not shake up the literary establishment, and their writing is unlikely to impress literary critics or purists who might sneer at conflating clicks with artistic quality. Web Poets’ Society: New Breed Succeeds in Taking Verse Viral 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Somewhat unusually for a political theorist, Professor Wolin analyzed political thinkers with a literary critic’s ear, bearing down on telling metaphors or revealing stylistic quirks. Sheldon S. Wolin, Theorist Who Shifted Political Science Back to Politics, Dies at 93 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z “I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States,” Gore Vidal, who worked as one constantly, said. Critics in the Age of Opinion 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z “It struck me as a much funnier book than the one they were describing,” Stein, a noted literary critic, told The Associated Press. Paris Review editor says new Houellebecq book misunderstood 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z "It struck me as a much funnier book than the one they were describing," Stein, a noted literary critic, told The Associated Press. AP Interview: Paris Review editor says literary bad boy Houellebecq's new book misunderstood 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z A profile of the literary critic Harold Bloom featured such a detailed account of his physical presence that one felt a little dirty after having read it. Larissa MacFarquhar interview: ‘People think I’m a total freak for not using the first person’ 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z She met and married a fellow student, Lee Baxandall, a leftist literary critic, whose enthusiasm for Marxism and European theater took them on an extended tour of East Germany, Hungary and Poland. Rosalyn Baxandall, Feminist Historian and Activist, Dies at 76 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z British poet and literary critic James Fenton was named the winner of the PEN Pinter Prize in June. Jailed Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi to Share PEN Pinter Prize 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese writer, dissident and literary critic, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, the first Nobel of any kind to be given to a citizen of China. Answering an Appeal by Mao Led Tu Youyou, a Chinese Scientist, to a Nobel Prize 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Hellmuth Karasek is probably Germany’s most famous living literary critic, and so perhaps it is his intellectual duty to examine the book that calls itself the world’s most circulated. Watch a German Literary Critic Review Ikea's Catalog 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z The writer, Hallberg, was chiefly known as a literary critic before this, writing for the American literary website the Millions about, among other things, “difficult novels.” From Jonathan Franzen to Eileen Myles: teeth, techno and trysts in fall fiction 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z “Many great writers and literary critics chose to concentrate on English because they hated math,” he told me. The Shakespeare Algorithm 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Over dinner, writers of fiction, poets, travel writers and literary critics plunged into vigorous discussion. Bombard England with Scottish books to save the UK | Val McDermid 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Isabel Paterson, a novelist and literary critic, produced The God of the Machine, which defended individualism as the source of progress in the world. The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, One of America's First Libertarians 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z His students included novelist Thomas Pynchon and literary critic Harold Bloom. M.H. Abrams, literary scholar who edited Norton Anthology, dies at 102 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “It is a deadly question,” says the literary critic Anis Shivani, author of the 2011 book “Against the Workshop: Provocations, Polemics, Controversies.” Why Writers Love to Hate the M.F.A. 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z One of the greatest weapons in the arsenal of a political movement is what the literary critic Van Wyck Brooks called “a usable past” and what the historian William McNeill calls “mythistory.” Conservatives’ history problem: Why they’re doomed by their own “Golden Age” 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z In antiquity, literary critics praised her “sublime” style, even as comic playwrights ridiculed her allegedly loose morals. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z A rambling, repetitive work panned by literary critics for its pedantic style, “Mein Kampf” was drafted by Hitler in a Bavarian jail after the failed Nazi uprising in Munich in November 1923. ‘Mein Kampf’: A historical tool, or Hitler’s voice from beyond the grave? 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Most credentialed literary critics disdain it as a grandiose hyperbole, and creative writers tend to speak of it in jest. Why We're Still Searching for the 'Great American Novel' 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Clearly, some reviewers do cross the wrong line – not the one separating them from literary critic, but the one separating them from loon-who-should-be-locked up. Inside the world of Amazon Vine book reviewers: how I ended up with a mailbox full of dog poo 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The new rules sparked a backlash in Britain, where some authors and literary critics fretted about a coming American literary invasion. Richard Flanagan Wins Man Booker Prize for Tale of World War II P.O.W. 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The poet and literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert has made a career of throwing her arms around big topics. Review: ‘The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity,’ by Sandra M. Gilbert The 18th Century English poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said it best when he said: The Big List of Little Things That Destroy Your Customer Experience 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “The element of fantasy adds a touch of joy to the work, mitigating its cruelty,” he said in an interview with Mustafa Najjar, an Arabic literary critic. Iraqi Novelist, Dodging Bombs, Writes to Clear the Fog of War 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z He was the co-author, with the literary critic Carol. Alan Friedman, 71, Dies; Revived Hall of Science 2014-05-07T02:39:51Z After a decade in power, the Congress party bears much responsibility for this decline, said Nilanjana S. Roy, a journalist and literary critic. Indian Publisher Withdraws Book, Stoking Fears of Nationalist Pressure 2014-02-14T03:37:13Z The writer was also a respected scholar and literary critic, while his book Mere Christianity was adapted from a series of BBC radio broadcasts, which sought to explain Christian teachings to a wider audience. Poets' Corner honour for CS Lewis 2013-11-22T02:11:32Z The shortlist was compiled in collaboration with author and literary critic Stuart Kelly, who admitted some of his choices were likely to prove controversial. Search on for Scotland's best book 2013-10-31T00:23:44Z It also highlighted his extensive career as a teacher, academic, broadcaster, literary critic and man of letters. Poet Seamus Heaney dies aged 74 2013-08-30T10:21:05Z The record sales for 50 Shades of Grey distressed literary critics worldwide, but they also demonstrated that women everywhere were crying out for fuel for their erotic imaginations. Female masturbation: yes, yes, yes there's an app for that 2013-06-21T13:09:12Z The Indian poet and literary critic K. Satchidanandan, who led the jury, said, the award is significant because it is the first award that honors literary works about South Asia. India Ink: Jeet Thayil's Novel of Opium and Bombay Takes DSC Prize 2013-01-26T08:26:41Z A year later, the Chinese Communist Party reacted with fury when the peace prize went to Liu Xiaobo, a dissident literary critic serving a prison sentence for subversion. Protest of Nobel Peace Prize for E.U. Gets Local 2012-12-09T21:45:32Z "One of the reasons why I support this petition in particular is because it offers very concrete suggestions, rather than just slamming the government," Nilanjana Roy, a literary critic, journalist and author, said via email. India Ink: Five Ways Indian Internet Users Are Fighting for Free Speech 2012-11-30T18:32:21Z But considering the fact that literary critics judge writing on a far loftier level than most readers, it could be argued that one has very little to do with the other. Why J.K. Rowling's 'Casual Vacancy' Will Make Millions Off The Critics' Bad Reviews 2012-09-27T18:01:50Z Her husband is a college professor as well as a poet and literary critic. The Saturday Profile: Shin Kyung-sook Mines South Korea’s Sense of Loss 2012-09-08T00:12:24Z Then there is, to borrow a phrase from the literary critic Harold Bloom, “the anxiety of influence.” Have Superchefs Gotten Too Clubby? 2012-09-05T11:45:43Z Liu Xiaobo, the essayist, literary critic and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, remains in prison, as do other poets, writers and critics. IHT Rendezvous: In Chinese Rock, the Times They Aren't A-Changin' 2012-08-27T05:52:32Z Not many people, I imagine, look at Ryan on TV and think back to literary critic Lionel Trilling’s seminal 1972 book “Sincerity and Authenticity,” and its exploration of two competing moral ideals in Western culture. Paul Ryan is the anti-Reagan 2012-08-14T12:15:00Z Ms. Sultan Khan, the literary critic, said the magazine should concentrate on what Hello! does best — celebrity tittle-tattle and glowing photography. Memo From Pakistan: In a Troubled Country, Still Time for High Society 2012-06-25T02:48:04Z Clive James moved to England in 1961, and rose to prominence as a literary critic and television columnist. Clive James 'getting near end' 2012-06-21T11:29:43Z It’s easy to understand the lure of the prequel, as British literary critic Mark Lawson once explained. Get Back: Prometheus and the Complicated Art of the Prequel 2012-06-07T12:05:20Z Yale professor and literary critic Harold Bloom said Keegan had become like an adopted granddaughter to him after serving as his research assistant for the past two years. Parents: Sharing of Yale grad’s essay is a comfort 2012-05-29T14:45:00Z Before becoming leader of the Socialist Party, Léon Blum was an acclaimed literary critic, while his predecessor, Jean Jaurès, wrote works of philosophy. Op-Ed Contributor: Victor Hugo on the Ballot 2012-04-19T12:27:18Z But it's just the sort of thing the literary critic can't see. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z Lewis: A novelist, poet, academic medievalist, literary critic and essayist, to name a few, Lewis is known for both his fictional and non-fictional pieces. The 10 most read Irish authors 2012-03-15T08:00:00Z The New York Tribune offered him the post of literary critic on its editorial staff. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Harold Bloom, the Yale professor and literary critic, was asked for his thoughts on the mayor’s reading list. Bloomberg, No Fan of Fiction, Finds ?Tinker, Tailor? Fascinating? 2012-01-26T01:56:56Z In other places he appears as a literary critic and a dictator on questions of grammar and orthography. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Most literary critics praise him in terms laudatory enough to atone for the sins of their professional predecessors, whom Borrow held up to "show the creatures wriggling, blood and foam streaming from their broken jaws." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z There was Cressy, a literary critic and a member of the club where he lunched. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z As a journalist, war correspondent and literary critic, Hitchens carved out a reputation for barbed repartee, scathing critiques of public figures and a fierce intelligence. Polemical journalist and atheist Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 2011-12-16T06:50:32Z The American historian and literary critic, George Ticknor, said of it that perusal of it greatly impressed him with the amount of literary talent that existed in Cuba. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z Though praised by literary critics, they obtained no general favour. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The Germans are, by nature and by training, scientific; and what their novels need is not the examination of literary critics, but the thoughtful attention of astronomers. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z I think I should scarcely like to live in London, and were I obliged to live there I should certainly go little into company—especially I should eschew the literary critics. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z Leyland was himself a poet, as I have said, and a literary critic of ability and judgment. The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z We usually leave that to historians and literary critics. Ghosts, Aliens, Quantum Gravity, Extra Dimensions, Sci Fi--and the Rules of Science 2011-09-22T18:15:00.473Z He concocts “vulgar caricatures of religious faith that would make a first-year theology student wince,” wrote Terry Eagleton, regarded as one of Britain’s foremost literary critics. | Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawkins, an Original Thinker Who Bashes Orthodoxy 2011-09-19T17:34:05Z It is hard to say whether the literary critic is more called upon to understand or to feel. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Our Clan has a good proportion of the literary in it, and I believe we are all literary critics. The Clan Fraser in Canada Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering 2011-09-09T02:01:00.467Z Robert Manning of Brunne was more of a literary critic; the passage in which he deals severely with the contemporary rhyming dunces is singularly interesting in a time when literary criticism is rare. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z As a literary critic Mr. Arnold had at one time a great vogue. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z A literary critic is rarely a scientific student of language; he has no need to be; but being ignorant, it is the part of modesty for him not to expose his ignorance. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z It is painfully difficult for the purely literary critic to recognize the inexorable fact that there are no truly great plays which failed to please the contemporary spectators for whose delight they were devised. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z At present the trees are so thick that the forest cannot be seen, but some day an amused and an amusing smile of recognition and disgust will curl the lips of the literary critic. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z To any literary critic who should honour this book by noticing it, it is probable the foregoing statements may seem extravagant and untrustworthy. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z Even serious history is sometimes unjust, much more the hasty generalizations of theologians or mere literary critics. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z The authors of comedy, and more especially the literary critics, were guided by classical practice and classical theory. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z One of them—it is true that he was a literary critic—actually went up to Diaghileff and said: “And it was to hear this that you invited us!” An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z That was the complaint of Dr. George Brandes, the Danish literary critic. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Graarud, the literary critic of the People's Guardian, declared that Knut Holm was a credit to the merchant citizens of his country, and as fine a specimen of the type as was to be found. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z An inspector of schools by profession, he was an indefatigable journalist and literary critic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z An experienced courtier and polished writer, he gracefully and politely conquered his clerical opponents, and with courteous irony overthrew his literary critics. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z All these are literary critics, and it is in the form of the analysis of manifestations of intellectual energy that the essay has been most successfully illustrated in France. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z The second group, consisting of Kubla Khan and The Study of Grammar, shows Mr. Stewart as a literary critic and analyst of the first rank. The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 Houghton Mifflin Books for Spring and Summer 2011-02-23T03:00:32.690Z The dream poems of literature are so numerous that one is amazed that the theory of poetry as a dream has not been more prominently discussed by literary critics. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The arguments of literary critics as to what constitutes this good literature have no place in a work of this nature that aims to aid teachers and parents in selecting books for their children. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z It does not matter whether they are thin-skinned literary critics or the hippopotami of sociology. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Philosophers, historians, classicists and literary critics feel especially badly let down. Learning wars 2011-01-07T17:13:09Z The editor, well known as a teacher and literary critic, has had the unusual advantage of a recent visit to Knutsford, which is the Cranford of the story. The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 Houghton Mifflin Books for Spring and Summer 2011-02-23T03:00:32.690Z China was infuriated when the Nobel committee awarded the prize to the 54-year-old literary critic, describing it as an attack on its political and legal system. Unrelated scary China news 2011-01-07T23:30:00Z Boys who still enjoy harnessing a dog to a wagon are neither university students nor good literary critics. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z “It’s as if in the 20th century the church did not survive persecution that made Tolstoy’s criticisms look like childish prattle,” wrote the literary critic Pavel V. Basinsky, whose new book examines Tolstoy’s final days. For Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy Ending 2011-01-04T02:50:05Z Other literary critics of the same period or a little later are Alex. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z He is a literary critic and a leader of the 1989 demonstrations in Beijing that were crushed by the Chinese military. In China, News About Nobel Winner Liu Xiaobo Is Scarce 2010-10-11T10:05:00Z At times, she is the literary critic, contextualizing our relationship to pain through Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault, Emily Dickinson and the Bible. Where It Hurts 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z Ms. Sargent, a poet, answered an advertisement to “live and work in Carnegie Hall” 46 years ago and moved in with a recommendation from the literary critic Malcolm Cowley. In Apartments Above Carnegie Hall, a Coda for Longtime Residents 2010-08-28T02:10:00Z He was less well-known, but no less talented, as a literary critic. In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic 2010-04-19T01:27:00Z Pliny was by no means a despicable literary critic, when he was not paying the tribute of friendly flattery which social tyranny then exacted. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Whatever opinion literary critics may hold of this novel, his wonderful realism, simplicity of style, and psychological analysis cannot be disputed. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Religious leaders, as well as literary critics, have been unanimous in rendering tribute to this remarkable volume. The Story of Our Hymns Have a brief paper on George Meredith as a poet and the various estimates of his poetry by literary critics; read from some of the best-known poems. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women The only defender of orthodoxy whose name has survived in literature—for Fréron, despite his power, was little more than a literary critic—is the Abbé Guénée. A Short History of French Literature I don’t know if they are the sort a literary critic would approve, but they bring new life into our camp. An Unknown Lover During the later Augustan period the only literary critic of importance was the elder Seneca. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Perhaps, the literary critics will help me decide if Otto meant this for the parable of the climber or whether he was only singularly adept in the art of suggestion. Seeds of Pine Among literary critics of painting, Diderot has his place in the highest rank. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Fénelon was a man of almost universal reading, and one of the most original and soundest literary critics of his time. A Short History of French Literature The poet and literary critic is a man of about fifty, rather below middle height, with a beautifully chiseled head. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things In England, the earliest literary critic of importance was Thomas Wilson, whose Art of Rhetoric was printed in 1553, and the earliest student of poetry, George Gascoigne, whose Instruction appeared in 1575. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" As yet, no farmer has written about it, but this is only because farmers are afraid of literary critics. Seeds of Pine Here is a Frenchman, Georges Pellisier, a literary critic, who argues that woman cannot write great literature, because she is intellectually as well as physically inferior to man. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Wotton was a versatile scholar, diplomat, and courtier, seventy years old at the time of this letter, with a reputation as a kindly and appreciative literary critic. Minor Poems by Milton Great as Hazlitt was as a miscellaneous and Montaignesque essayist, he was greater as a literary critic. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The literary critic, however, in carefully studying the works of these authors, tried to get at the real meaning,—the idea between the lines. Contemporary Russian Novelists He says that England has need of a literary critic. Pot-Boilers In a contest of literary critics held in Madison Square Garden, New York, Abner won first prize in all three events—reviewing by publisher’s slip, reviewing by cover, and reviewing by title page. The So-called Human Race He was weakest of all as a literary critic: and his dealings with Chatterton were most unfortunate, though the mischief done was not intentional, and might not have been serious in any other case. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing So, too, precise examination of his numerous but fragmentary remains as a literary critic makes it necessary to take a great deal for granted. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) I would be affable to ordinary uncles, common parents and guardians of the other girls, but I would lead the conversation artfully on to other literary critics and examiners of the past. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 Starr's cartoon scarcely comes within the province of a literary critic, but is doubtless an excellent example of elementary art. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It is possible, I do not deny, that I put this view of the case without what literary critics call "the light touch." The Gates Between These writers are primarily literary critics, not dogmatic theologians. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion As a historian, who would have made an unexceptionable literary critic, has said: Beer overflows in almost every volume of Fielding and Smollett. Dickens' London The qualities, however, which charm the purely literary critic do not account for the whole of Cowper's influence. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Accordingly, he has prejudiced his claims as a literary critic. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare I do not affirm that the literary critic is bound to answer all such local puzzles as this. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Perhaps a literary critic, like Sainte-Beuve with shining Monday morning reviews. Melomaniacs An English nobleman who is a literary critic has pronounced this poem the most sympathetic in the language. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History The greatest triumph that a literary critic can win is the early recognition of genius not yet appreciated by his contemporaries. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) He is at once the lyrical poet, with heart and imagination responsive to the deeper meaning and lighter amusements of life, and the satirist, the moralist, and the literary critic of the age.’—Sellar. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Margaret Fuller opened the way for many women, who upon the editorial staff of the great New York dailies, as literary critics and as reporters, have helped impress woman's thought upon the American mind. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I I once met a literary critic who said that the only American literature that's worth anything or is ever going to be worth anything will be dug right out of the soil. Otherwise Phyllis I myself have been accused rather of limiting than of extending the province of the literary critic; yet I think this question is, sometimes at least, in place. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century What he, as a purely literary critic, passed over as comparatively uninteresting, gives the exposition of Cowper's intellectual position. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) But I don’t suppose that any of this would redound to Cobb’s credit in the eyes of a literary critic. When Winter Comes to Main Street That the writer should mistake, as he seems to do, the merely directive force of magnetism for a motive force does not concern the literary critic. Old Familiar Faces Is the literary critic of a prosperous journal employed to write the City article? More Science From an Easy Chair The literary critics sometimes dispute her supremacy by urging the claims of Jane Austen, who is said to have Shaksperean power in the delineation of character. Stories of Authors, British and American The entrance of Miss Fern, and the subsequent proceedings, compelled the literary critic to go out alone, as has been seen. A Black Adonis A touch of Homer as literary critic we should not pass by, as he does not often take that part. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary To the literary critic, Shelley's power is the more remarkable because from a flimsy philosophy he span an imaginative tissue of such magical and marvellous beauty. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Careful abridgments have been made by well-known literary critics, but the essence of these masterpieces has been retained. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk To his other distinctions F�nelon added that of a literary critic, unsurpassed in his time, unless it be by Boileau. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. The very greatest of all our literary critics, in his essay on Milton, feels it incumbent upon him to point out that imagination is essentially the domain of childhood. Mushrooms on the Moor The literary critic can have no more valuable qualities than these. Dr. Johnson and His Circle It is the work of the literary critic to write about these books in such a manner that neither the author nor the public may suffer injustice by their purchase or non-purchase. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing At this time my reputation amongst literary critics was that of being a poet of broken cadence and lisping utterance. My Reminiscences As a literary critic he was again conservative. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. “What have our literary critics been about that they have suffered such a writer to drop into neglect and oblivion?” asks a recent Quarterly Reviewer. Immortal Memories And what an incident it was, the two well-skilled and accomplished literary critics exerting themselves, the one to secure the best aid of his friend, the other eager to assist, because his friend wished it. John Forster But until the learned philologists who deny that authorship in whole or in part agree a little better among themselves, they must allow literary critics at least to suspend their judgment. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) The literary critic may amuse himself with the question how Johnson came to acquire the peculiar style which imposed upon contemporaries and excited the ridicule of the next generation. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century He is best as a literary critic but in sociology and history his works do not measure up to standard. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Is not the moral preacher intruding a little too much on the province of the literary critic? Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The King himself, who was a member of the school, reviewed it in his capacity of literary critic to "Straight from the Stables," a sporting journal. The Napoleon of Notting Hill Any literary critic who knew his business would agree with me. The Simpkins Plot So I warn the exquisite literary critic and the over-polished individual who prefer fancy phrases to logical ideas, that this work may somewhat jar their delicate senses of perception. Born Again One of our most gifted literary critics a while ago pointed out the poetic charm of evanescence; pointed it out more plainly, I fancy, than it has ever been shown before. The Amateur Garden I do not set up to be a literary critic, but I guess I know my own wife's style of composition when I encounter it. The Making of Mary Many literary critics have spent much labor in comparing Dickens with Thackeray, but there seems to me no basis for such comparison. Modern English Books of Power We counted among the audience the heads of all the great professions in Dublin, a considerable number of literary critics, and an extremely large representation of 'le monde o� l'on s'amuse.' Irish Plays and Playwrights The literary critic of that paper praised the book if written by a man, and pronounced it “odious” if the work of a woman. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle His other chief endowment is that of literary critic. Platform Monologues But the curious thing is that the literary critics of the day seem to have been altogether silent about the book—perhaps they were "puzzled" by it, as Southey has suggested. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series The literary critic knows well enough that the merit of these three pieces—A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet—mainly lies in their varied wealth of poetic imagery and passion. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays It was not written for literary critics, for scholars or for college graduates. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict As a literary critic I have felt, and I could not say I was surprised to find how unanimously critics have been condemned by poets and artists of all generations. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z As a literary critic of Homer our author is most interesting even in his errors. On the Sublime The literary critics took up the subject, and thought themselves justified in disparaging many of the American books which found also ready sale on English book-counters. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book It is, however, with Mr. Howells in his capacity of literary critic alone that my disappointment is too great to allow of silence. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin I say confidently that no one unable to distinguish this, as poetry, from the very best of "Beowulf" is fit to engage upon business as a literary critic. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 Should the literary critic seek an appropriate heading for the tenth book of "Paradise Lost," he could hardly find one more appropriate than this: "What Man Soweth, That Shall He Also Reap." The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service It is perhaps stranger that he ignored the novel than that he ignored theology, for the novel was then a very rising and popular literary form, and Smith began life as a professed literary critic. Life of Adam Smith The attitude of the literary critic will be modified by the constant use of the scientific method, quite as much as the attitude of the literary creator. Inquiries and Opinions England had known him first as a poet, then as a literary critic. Matthew Arnold Or take a critic—a literary critic—such as Samuel Johnson, of whom we are used to think as of a man artificial in phrase and pedantic in judgment. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 In general, literary critics lay far too much emphasis on plot. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Now, the question as to what Jesus really said and did is strictly a scientific problem, which is capable of solution by no other methods than those practised; by the historian and the literary critic. Lectures and Essays His Memoirs are good reading for those with a touch of the fantastic in themselves; but the average literary critic will dub them rhodomontade. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened A psychological literary critic, Sainte Beuve, writes: "You may not cease to be a skeptic after reading Pascal; but you must cease to treat believers with contempt." Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking I conceive some scholar, or literary critic asking, if such an one looks into this book. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological He had begun with arguments supported by citations from literary critics and he called in the support of ascetic religious writers after his discourse was well under way. Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Nor were appeals like these the only sort of seduction to which I was exposed when I became the literary critic of "L'Assemblée Nationale." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Our literary critics have decided that this chapter was forbidden ground to Isaiah, that, if we are to believe them, he had no connection with this prophecy. The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism I wish that some greatly gifted youth now aged about seventeen would make up his mind to be a literary critic and nothing else. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 "Don't you want a job as a literary critic Our Special Reviewer, Miss Io Wel—Mrs. Delavan Eyre," he concluded, in a tone from which the raillery had flattened out. Success A Novel But it is when she writes as a literary critic, defending the English language, with its monosyllables and consonants, as a literary medium, that she is most interesting. An apology for the study of northern antiquities Very popular during her life, and still highly estimated by literary critics, her works have given place to newer and more favorite authors, and have already lost interest with the great world of readers. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Mr Eliot puts before us Coleridge and Aristotle and Dryden as literary critics par excellence arranged in an ascending scale of purity. Aspects of Literature In a letter to the actor Hackett and in several conversations he analyzed passages from "Hamlet," "Macbeth," and other plays with an insight and sympathy that have rarely been surpassed even by eminent literary critics. Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) As if he wanted a literary critic for his wife. The Divine Fire I see in him personified the rising generation of literary critics, who have a hard row to hoe in a deliterated democracy. Shandygaff He occupied a high place as a literary critic during his life. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Our search for the pure literary critic is likely to be arduous. Aspects of Literature As a literary critic also Charizi ranks high, and there is much skill in the manner in which he links together, round the person of his hero, the various narratives which compose the Tachkemoni. Chapters on Jewish Literature Ferdinand Brunetière had a different conception of the duties of a literary critic. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 They were as proud of a brilliant protégé as a modern literary critic is when he "discovers" a new minor poet. Haydn The literary critic says ancestor-worship is one of the great branches of the religion of mankind. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour It looks as though we might have to pronounce that the true literary critic is the philosophic critic. Aspects of Literature As a literary critic, his taste, his temper, his judgment were pretty nearly infallible. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems What, then, has made him the foremost literary critic of the present day? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 As for literary critics, it may be set down once and for all that they are "suspect." Promenades of an Impressionist Then the literary critic steps in and shows how the belief in immortality has been enlarged and elaborated since the days of Saul, the son of Kish. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The true literary critic must have a humanistic philosophy. Aspects of Literature In his work as literary critic Arnold has occupied a high place among the foremost prose writers of the time. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems |
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