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 confro nts the past, present, and future of literary culture.If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared if all we had were r eviews that treated books like any other commodity could the novel survive? In a gauntlet-throwing essay at the start of this bril liant assemblage, Cynthia Ozick stakes the claim that, just as surely as critics require a steady supply of new fiction, novelists n eed great ...[Read more]