J onathan Kramnick’s book Criticism and Truth is more modest than its title suggests. Essentially an apologia for the nuts-and-bolts work of literary studies, it is best described not as “ambitious” — ...

Spanish professor won the 2025 Pedro Correa Vazquez Literary Criticism Essay award for her book “Voices in Global Times.” ...

“C riticism” is a curiously protean word. In academic discourse, as in ordinary speech, it can refer simply to the act of appraisal, sometimes with a censorious edge. It’s used to describe reviews, ...

Anyone who has taught a college literature course has likely heard a student say, “Can’t I just enjoy the book?” This frustration with literary theory is common. Many undergraduates feel that theory ...

As theories of literary criticism in Urdu are being maligned and violently discarded, here’s an attempt to unravel the reasons Literary criticism in general and contemporary Urdu criticism in ...

From the start, the magazine bowed in the direction of the east—by which I mean London. The little magazines in New York and Boston had grown so moribund. Croly and Lippmann populated their new ...

Last winter, the 37-year-old literary critic and Wesleyan professor Merve Emre stood in front of a microphone in Rachel Comey's Soho boutique. The New York Review of Books was celebrating its new ...

Nigeria has lost one of its brightest literary minds with the passing of Emeritus Professor Biodun Jeyifo, a towering Marxist critic and postcolonial scholar whose work shaped African intellectual ...

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