Tag: literary critic
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Criticism As Literature Itself
“One doesn’t have any business writing about literature unless one’s business is literature,” writes William Giraldi in his fascinating treatment of critic Adam Kirsch’s new book on Lionel Trilling, Why Trilling Matters. Giraldi notes that Kirsch himself is a throwback to critic-as-intellectual and calls him: “An Ideal critic of the Coleridgean mold, he possesses a swift…
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Critic Maud Newton Recommended My Essay On Catholic Writers
The noted literary critic and blogger Maud Newton recommended my essay on Catholic writers in The Millions. She wrote: I recommend Robert Fay’s essay about the end of the Latin Mass — and Catholic “drama of salvation” novels — even though I strongly disagree that “the Christian faith [has] been in full cultural retreat since…