Literary criticism

Terry Teachout Was a Peerless Writer, but His Death Doesn’t Spell the End of Intelligent Conservative Writing about Culture

A leftist’s convoluted case for a conservative critic.

Micah Mattix
Jan. 25 2022 12:01AM

The Hidden Jew as Critic

Did John Simon’s origins inform his idiosyncratic opinions?

Jonathan Leaf
Jan. 10 2020 12:01AM

Harold Bloom’s Anti-Christian, Anti-Jewish, and Anti-Narnia Theory of Fantasy

The anxiety of criticism.

Michael Weingrad
March 29 2019 12:01AM

A New Play Reveals the Thread Connecting Fascism, Moral Relativism, and Post-Modern Intellectual Decadence

Paul de Man, the man.

Thomas McArdle
March 22 2017 12:01AM

Cynthia Ozick’s Very Jewish Appreciation of Literary Critics

There is no Torah without interpretation.

Dara Horn
Sept. 28 2016 12:01AM

What Cynthia Ozick Rejects, and Why She Rejects It

The principle of havdalah.

Giles Harvey
June 27 2016 12:01AM

Remembering One of the Great Jewish Interpreters of German Literature, and His Family

A niece’s memoir of her parents and her uncle, the scholar Erich Heller.

Adam Kirsch
Aug. 28 2015 12:01AM