“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 ...

Smith College Professor Michael Thurston uncovers how one influential critic helped shape the early American literary landscape As difficult as it might be to believe today, there wasn’t much support ...

Carey in 2005 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - Sandy Young/WireImage John Carey, the former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford who has died aged 91, was one of Britain’s ...

ASUU’s second president and celebrated literary scholar Biodun Jeyifo dies in Ibadan at 80. Renowned literary critic, public intellectual and second President of the Academic Staff Union of ...

A very interesting piece by Prof. Thomas Balazs in Quillette. An excerpt: When ChatGPT can analyse Hamlet as well as any grad student, we might reasonably ask, "What is the point of writing papers on ...

Writer, literary critic Dmitry Bavilsky died in Chelyabinsk at the age of 58. This was announced on February 17 by publicist and philologist Nikolai Podosokorsky."Dmitry Vladimirovich Bavilsky, a ...

George Steiner, a literary polymath and man of letters whose voluminous criticism often dealt with the paradox of literature’s moral power and its impotence in the face of an event like the Holocaust, ...

Harold Bloom ‘51, an English professor at Yale University and literary critic, died at the age of 89 on Oct. 14 in New Haven. He taught his last class at Yale University on Oct. 10. Born in East Bronx ...

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 ...

Russia's Justice Ministry has added several more names to its list of so-called "foreign agents." Among those added to the "foreign agents" register are renowned literary critic and professor Oleg ...

T here’s a conservative turn happening in literary studies, although it hasn’t received much public attention. Those involved certainly haven’t banded together under a banner. In literature ...