CSL and the Menippean satire, once more
There’s probably not much point in responding to this post, with its rhetorical strategy of huffing and puffing...
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There’s probably not much point in responding to this post, with its rhetorical strategy of huffing and puffing...
How interesting would it be to have a writer’s every keystroke recorded and played back? Pretty interesting, perhaps,...
Over at University Diaries, I am having a debate with Margaret Soltan about Flannery O’Connor. Come join the fun.
Via Margaret Soltan the story of a Russian controversy: images from the fiction of Dostoevsky in the Moscow subway....
Stephen Emms thinks Tolstoy blew the ending of Anna Karenina. If you haven’t read the book, you might want to...
That’s how Alison Flood in the Guardian characterizes Philip Roth’s thoughts about the future of the novel....
So the BBC wants you to vote for the Nation’s Favourite Poet. Or it wants some people to vote, anyway —...
Louis Menand's long essay in the New Yorker on Mark McGurl's new book The Program Era is, typically, superb....
To John McWhorter's suggestion that we should start performing Shakespeare's plays in translation, D. H....
At the Chronicle of Higher Education I read this: Leslie Morris is used to handling John Updike's personal effects....