What do myths, memes, and novels have in common? Structure. In this video, we explore the core ideas of structuralism and semiotics, guided by the work of Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, and Barthes. From ...

The sudden discontinuation of the JCB Prize for Literature, sponsored by J C Bamford Excavators in 2025, reignited questions about the politics of literary recognition and the fragility of platforms ...

August 1987: Geoff Dyer reviews the writer’s selected works By Geoff Dyer The eminent Oxford literary critic John Carey died on 11 December 2025, aged 91. In 1987, Faber & Faber published a collection ...

Over the past century, there have been countless attempts to assemble a definitive list of essential literature. In recent decades, however, the very idea of a literary canon has become a source of ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...

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In the nineteen-thirties and forties, young book critics on the make used to crowd outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the literary editor of The New Republic, in the hopes of his attention.

Between the Trump administration's cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and the gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, federal ...