By: Joshua Glenn

“My starting point is always a feeling of partisan­ship, a sense of injustice.”

By: Tom Nealon

Before NORTHROP FRYE (1912-91) there was no Literary Theory, only criticism. He blasted a place for the former, as a distinct field of study — first with Fearful Symmetry (1947) and then decisively with Anatomy […]

By: HILOBROW

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JULY 12 A New England scion twice kicked out of Harvard for nonconformity and “apathy,” […]