Stories as Prayer: A Conversation Between Joshua Cohen and Harold Bloom
The author Joshua Cohen visits Harold Bloom....
Seeing Both Sides of the Shield: On Rebecca Harding Davis
"When we look for meaning in the lives of historical figures, what we’re often looking for is the reflected image of our own ideas and beliefs."...
An Intensity Leavened by Gentleness
A new biography of the seminal French literary and cultural theorist René Girard....
The Author Is Not as Dead as Claimed
Robert Dasaler reviews “The Varieties of Authorial Intention: Literary Theory Beyond the Intentional Fallacy” by John Farrell....
On Feeling One’s Way: David Russell’s “Tact”
Tanya Agathocleous reviews “Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century” by David Russell....
Who Is a Beneficiary? You Are.
"The Beneficiary" is not invested simply in exposing liberal American hypocrisy. Instead this is a study of the uneasy place we live intellectually....
Fashion It Thus: Stephen Greenblatt’s “Tyrant”
What Shakespeare’s tyrants tell us about our own political crisis....
Literature at Work: A Conversation with Derek Attridge
Francesco Giusti discusses literary criticism and theory with Derek Attridge, author of “The Work of Literature.”...
An American Literary Hero’s Complicated Homecoming
In “Atticus Finch, The Biography,” historian Joseph Crespino exposes the complications of an American literary icon....
The Voices of Hayden White
Amy Elias reminds us of what we have lost with the passing of Hayden White, one of the great humanist minds of our time....
Sharp but Narrow
Jacquelyn Ardam reviews Michelle Dean’s “Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art Out of Having an Opinion.”...
“The Genius to Glue Them Together”: On René Girard and His Ideas
An excerpt from Cynthia L. Haven’s “Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard,” which will appear from Michigan State University Press on April 1....
