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Electrolite is one of my favorite blogs and I’ve spent the last half hour trying to remember the link to this brilliant piece in …

Philosophically the idea of objectivity is, when examined, one of the odder notions we have. So says Lorraine Datson in a review of a …

The LA Times reports that art critics at most newspapres don’t criticize art. A new survey by the National Arts Journalism …

Chris Mooney pens an essay in the Washington Post in praise of Muggles - those people who aren’t wizards a la Harry Potter. …

About 5 years ago I went through the process of moving my books from one home to another. At that time I filled a single box full of …

Harold Bloom has a new book out, a massive tome called Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. I ran into the 800 …

I stopped watching the news about the Washington D.C. sniper before the story had even really begun to bloom because I knew that the …

Via Arts and Letters Daily I found this intriguing profile of David Lodge, author of a new set of essays Consciousness and the Novel …