“No Crisis” is a Los Angeles Review of Books special series considering the state of critical thinking and writing — literary interpretation, art history, and cultural studies — in the 21st century. A new installment to the series will be released at the beginning of each month through the fall of 2015. Our aim, as our introductory essay explains, is to “show that the art of criticism is flourishing, rich with intellectual power and sustaining beauty, in hard times.”
The editors of “No Crisis” are Caleb Smith, Sarah Mesle, and Merve Emre.
Bride of Deconstruction
The publication of A Life with Mary Shelley shows exactly what was at stake in the reclamation of Mary Shelley’s absorbing novel for a whole generation of young women in the academy, seeking themselves to be heard....
