Literary Criticism and Its Caricatures A new book defends the political power of the critic. It falls short. The Review | Essay. By Justin Sider February 8, 2023.

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...

Scott McLemee reviews Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies. In 1966, Roland Barthes published a short book—a pamphlet, really—called Criticism and Truth, in response ...

John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk.

" Literary analysis, after all, is not like building houses, feeding people, or practising medicine. Even compared to its sister disciplines in the humanities (e.g., ...

Cultural Capital may have been a final witness to one kind of literary criticism, stable as it once was; Professing Criticism is a witness to what is replacing it. 23.

Lovers of long-form literary criticism have a little less to lament today. The Nation is bringing Bookforum back from the dead. Six months after the beloved literary magazine Bookforum announced ...

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I’m writing to share the link to a website that I just created, titled Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism: ...