Category: Literary Studies

In a recent Newsweek article, Jeremy McCarter describes 2008 as an annus mirabilis for literary critic, frustrated novelist, and former Columbia professor Lionel Trilling. Three books by Trilling were published or reprinted this year, including the never-before-published novel, The Journey...

The Baltimore City Paper just named Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin by Juniper Ellis as the best new book by a local author. The paper writes: Juniper Ellis has authored a tattoo book that is as...

We began the week with Trilling and we’ll end the week with Trilling. More specifically, The Valve held its second round of responses to Lionel Trilling’s novel, The Journey Abandoned. This segment includes a response from the book’s editor Geraldine...

A book event for Lionel Trilling’s novel, The Journey Abandoned began last week over The Valve: A Literary Organ (scroll down a bit to read the posts). The discussion includes a variety of responses from literary critics and scholars such...

Scott Esposito at the always worthwhile and interesting Conversational Reading has a very good review of J. J. Long’s W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity. Long’s book as you might have guessed from the subtitle views Sebald’s work in light...