Terry Eagleton is an English literary theorist and critic. His best-known books include The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), After Theory (2003), and On Evil (2010).
ARTICLES FEATURING TERRY

Man of Sorrows: On Terry Eagleton’s “Tragedy”
Rhodri Lewis makes sense of "Tragedy," the newest book from Terry Eagleton....

Our Predicament Is No Joke: On Terry Eagleton’s “Humour”
Kieran Setiya takes a serious look at “Humour” by Terry Eagleton....

A Monochrome Glaze on the World
What we need, according to Terry Eagleton, is something deeper and more responsive than optimism....

Atheism and Its Discontents
What makes atheism so radically different is its desire to meet the extraordinary truth claims of religion head-on with rival propositions about the world....

Mockery in America: Terry Eagleton’s “Across the Pond”
TERRY EAGLETON IS A FUNNY MAN. Writing about Hal Gladfelder’s Fanny Hill in Bombay for the London Review of Books, ...
