“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany's best-known literary critic and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, died on Wednesday aged 93, his publisher said. Reich-Ranicki, a Jew born in Poland in ...

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” — ...

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 ...

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 its ...

The literary-critical marketplace now suffers social media as a necessary side street at the very least, if not a central forum. As a result, it has adopted some of the latter’s methods of preference ...

A literary critic famous for her scathing reviews of well-known writers such as Roxane Gay and Sally Rooney has had a taste of her own medicine after her latest book got completely scorched in a viral ...

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 ...