Originality Is Unmusical: On Scott Miller’s Pop Music Criticism
Ivan Kreilkamp looks at the late Scott Miller's pop magnum opus....
Ivan Kreilkamp looks at the late Scott Miller's pop magnum opus....
John Leigh’s Touché: The Duel in Literature surveys literary duels from Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid to Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain....
Robert Christgau, Dean of American Rock Critics, is a much-needed example of the public intellectual unafraid of tapping into his academic voice (and persona)....
THE NEW YORKER'S editor David Remnick has dubbed Roz Chast “the magazine's only certifiable genius," but to some of the magazine’s readers, she is just another cartoonist in the stable of regulars — the one who sketches neurotic New Yorkers in ...
Invariably damaged, Ferrante’s narrators and protagonists suffer from injuries that tend to shift, disconcertingly, from the figurative to the literal....