Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays
"In a collection that includes new essays written explicitly for this volume, one of our sharpest and most influential critics confronts the past, present, and future of literary culture. If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared -- if all we had were reviews that treated books like an...
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin
- Novel or nothing: Lionel Trilling
- The lastingness of Saul Bellow
- "Please, stories are stories": Bernard Malamud
- W.H. Auden at the 92nd Street Y
- Transcending the Kafkaesque
- Nobility eclipsed
- Writers, visible and invisible
- Out from Xanadu
- The rhapsodist
- "I write because I hate": William Gass
- Love and levity at Auschwitz: Martin Amis
- An empty coffin: H.G. Adler.
