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Fuse Book Review: Cynthia Ozick — The Value of “Exaggerated Contempt”

For Cynthia Ozick, critics connect the dots; they inform us about what kind of culture we’re living in.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: And Other Literary Essays, critics, Cynthia-Ozick, Fanatics, literary-essays, monsters, Zoe Heller

Book Review: Critic and Poet Clive James—Reading and Writing Until the Lights Go Out

Clive James gets the most out of whatever’s on the page and isn’t shy about making larger connections.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Clive James, Latest Readings, literary-essays, Matt Hanson, Yale-University-Press

Arts Criticism Commentary: In Defense of Negative Book Reviews

“Criticism will always have the force of the child in the story about the emperor’s new clothes, because there will always be naked emperors who everybody says are wearing today’s Crown Jewels.” — Eric Bentley

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: -J.M.-Coetzee, book-reviews, Books, cultural-dialogue, Embers, Inner-Workings, James-Marcus, literary-essays, negative-reviews, Persona Non Grata, Sándor-Márai, The-Rebelss

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