This essay collection from novelist (Foreign Bodies) and literary critic Ozick takes a fresh look at renowned writers of the past and present. She sorts the authors under consideration into different ...

'One might, at an early age, wish to be a poet or a dramatist or a novelist or even possibly a critic," Joseph Epstein writes in "A Literary Education," his 13th collection of essays. "One somehow ...

A MORE satisfactory volume of English prose than this has not come into our hands since the first appearance of the famous “ Essays and Reviews.” Differing widely from that collection in kind and ...

In the first episode of the JMoney Sports Podcast, producer Jason Hardrict talks about the end of the 2024 Oregon football season and the beginning... Atmosphere is a touchy subject at Matthew Knight ...

Tackling works by Rushdie, Naguib Mahfouz, Doris Lessing, Borges and A.S. Byatt, Stranger Shores: Literary Essays collects critical work by South African author and two-time Booker-winner J.M. Coetzee ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the continuing vitality of literary fiction. Also: Exxon vs. California; a Supreme ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Other essays are a bit preachy, repetitive, cryptic or ...

In an increasingly fragmented literary landscape, few emerging voices manage to articulate the complexity of contemporary ...

Sometime during the early days of September, 1919, T. S. Eliot—just thirty years old and working as a clerk in the foreign-exchange division of Lloyds Bank in London—sat down and wrote his manifesto ...

Everyone loves a hero, especially if he’s dead. The heroes of Cynthia Ozick’s new collection of essays are all gone. Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud — this is the frieze ...