Articles of Note

John Guillory is worried about the “professional deformation” of literary scholars. Can they transcend their training?... more... more... more »

New Books

As a critic, Richard Gilman was ferociously precise. As a teacher, he was agitating and inspiring. As a father, he was... complicated... more »

Essays & Opinions

We take “getting lost in a book” to be a good thing. For Petrarch, the voracious reader was an intellectually malnourished, overstimulated junkie... more »