The Claims of Close Reading

Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University

The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

Letter to the Editor: “A Century of Serious Difficulty”

On reading outside the university.

A Century of Serious Difficulty

Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism a hundred years on.

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