Articles with keyword "literary criticism"
Conversation
Not Just Another Ice-Cream-Suit-Wearing, Pen-Wielding Master of the Statusphere
NEH Chairman Bruce Cole speaks with Tom Wolfe about his role as the Balzac of our times.
Feature
Who Was Edmund Wilson?
America's greatest reader had overwhelming passions: for beautiful women and exceptional writing.
Conversation
Reading Into the Great Depression
Critic Morris Dickstein talks about the culture of the thirties and the demise of theory.
Curio
Poetry Speaks
“Voice registers the weird sexiness of reading poetry, the illusion it enables of a private tryst between author and reader.” So says Lesley Wheeler, an English professor at Washington and Lee Univers