J onathan Kramnick’s book Criticism and Truth is more modest than its title suggests. Essentially an apologia for the nuts-and-bolts work of literary studies, it is best described not as ...

Melania Trump has sparked some harsh criticism after she debuted the cover of her new memoirs to fans online. The former First Lady shared the front cover of Melania on her social media and people ...

But what literary criticism is not for, he argues, is what many of his colleagues think it is for: changing the world. “When people read the book, I suspect they’re going to be upset,” he ...

Last winter, the 37-year-old literary critic and Wesleyan professor Merve Emre stood in front of a microphone in Rachel Comey's Soho boutique. The New York Review of Books was celebrating its new ...

The Scholar-Critic attached criticism to a specifically literary object and to a method—close reading, inspired by I. A. Richards in his book “Practical Criticism.” ...

The literary magazine will be back in print in August, with a new publishing partner: The Nation. By Kate Dwyer Bookforum, a literary criticism magazine that closed in December to great uproar in ...

Lovers of long-form literary criticism have a little less to lament today. The Nation is bringing Bookforum back from the dead. Six months after the beloved literary magazine Bookforum announced ...

In a new book, 'Taylor Swift By the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics,' from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets,' authors Rachel Feder and Tiffany Tatreau explore the literary inspirations in ...