Tag: criticism

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| April 10, 2018

empire and critique

Many years ago I wrote an essay on the great Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe in which I looked at what I believed to be...

| August 7, 2015

respect

Portrait of Virginia Woolf by Roger Fry (Wikimedia) Suzanne Berne on Virginia Woolf: A Portrait, by Viviane Forrester:...

| July 16, 2015

readerly triage

In the first five pages of The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters says that media are “devices of information”...

| April 17, 2015

Mark Greif and Mrs. Turpin

I’ve written a review of Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man for Books and Culture, but it won’t appear for...

| September 10, 2014

biases

I’m reading the first volume of David Bromwich’s projected two-volume intellectual biography of Edmund Burke, and...

| December 11, 2013

beyond snark and smarm

Just a brief couple of comments on the whole snark-vs.-smarm Ultimate Revenge Cage Match that was kicked off by Tom...

| February 23, 2011

I want to believe

Returning to the subject of today’s earlier post: The authors of that study write this in summation: Statistical...