Criticism

November, 2007

Must Read Friday: Wyatt Mason on John Updike’s Graffiti

by John Freeman | Nov-16-2007

WYATT MASON has been absorbing all the discussion about reviews and reviewing from the sidelines for some time now, and he steps up with some questions...read »

Friday Review: J.M. Coetzee’s “Inner Workings”

by admin | Nov-09-2007

IN HIS 1997 MEMOIR, "Boyhood,"South African-born Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee recalled the desperate passion with which he devoured books as a child. "He...read »

October, 2007

Friday Review: John Updike’s Due Considerations

by admin | Oct-26-2007

AMERICAN ARTS AND LETTERS have been blessed with few great generalist critics over the years, and fewer still have written novels. The most...read »

Paul Berman: Remembering Eliot Fremont-Smith

by admin | Oct-18-2007

Eliot Fremont-Smith, book critic and co-founder of the National Book Critics Circle (pictured here in 1972, two years before the NBCC was founded), book...read »

Led There By A Book Review

by admin | Oct-17-2007

I think the only reason I've been reading Anne Enright these past fews years is the fact that I stopped to read a review James Wood wrote of her book,...read »

September, 2007

The Edmund Wilson Metaphor of the Day

by admin | Sep-25-2007

REGULAR READERS of our blog have probably noticed that the name Edmund Wilson has come up several times in the previous installments of the Critical...read »

Roxana Robinson on Reading Lydia Davis

by Roxana Robinson | Sep-03-2007

I can't stand Lydia Davis, though, no, that's not quite it, it's that I can't stand Lydia Davis's work, though that's not quite it either, I can't stand...read »

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