Criticism

Are Ivy League writers cheerful?

Back in 2002, Jonathan Safran Foer published Everything is Illuminated, a novel that immediately aroused the attention of America’s book-reviewing cabal. Foer’s novel also provoked an extraordinary amount of resentment, and The Guardian had to invent a new word—“Schadenfoer”—to describe the viciousness with which so many commentators berated the young author.

By Philip Petrov | Mar 29 09:39 pm ET

Why (Even Spectator) Criticism Matters

Writing criticism for the Spectator is a bit of a masturbatory enterprise (I know this because I write criticism for the Spectator). But though it may be masturbatory, it’s not irrelevant.

By | Apr 28 08:25 pm ET

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