All Our Revels Ended
/For decades, famed academic and critic Harold Bloom has been tilting against the windmills of cultural fads and forgettings. But in his latest (and last?) book, he strikes a different pose.
Read MoreInk a Dinka Don't
/Is close reading disappearing? And is that the most pressing problem facing universities? Terry Eagleton's latest, How to Read Literature is a plea for a return to what made the humanities worth knowing.
Read MoreTherapeutic Wordsworth
/There are warring schools of fad and interpretation, there are critical readings of an hour or a season - and then there's Wordsworth's verse itself, annotating and amplifying the personal reading experience.
Read MoreHow Pleasant to Know Mr. Lane
/The best of Anthony Lane's many New Yorker reviews and essays were collected in Nobody's Perfect, a big volume that amply displays this writer's wit and subtlety.
Read MoreLiterature is Dead, Long Live Literature
/Is the death of literature finally dead? If not, it's been dealt a healthy blow by Gregory Jusdanis' Fiction Agonistes, even it art does have to “justify itself in a way not necessary before.”
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