A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
"When the author gives me a scene of wild young passion, then I can no longer slog through the immediate follow-up of a tender description of the bendings of wheat in the breeze."
Glickman’s focus on technique on a granular level reveals her to be a deeply knowledgeable and highly erudite reader of a wide range of poets.
The reduction of literary characters to a history of trauma is too often used as convenient shorthand, robbing us of the pleasure found in complexity and ambiguity.
A noir sensibility finds its origins in German expressionism and creates a neurotic environment in which the borderline between good and evil is nonexistent.
Hammond has written a text that is frankly unclassifiable: part biography, part critical exegesis, part hipster manifesto.
The New York Times literary critic surveys the history of the newspaper’s book review to discover what has, and what hasn’t, changed in the last century.
The dearth of serious literary critique in contemporary society is concerning, because a robust literature depends on robust criticism.
In a brief survey of some core Western texts, Oates asks the key question, why do we want to experience fear in an aesthetic context?
Arguments that insist on the centrality of the western canon are most frequently a veil for the politics of exclusion.
Harold Bloom antagonized academics and cultural theorists, but remained a staunch advocate of transcendence through literature.