Book Recommendations

A Guide to Its Pioneers and Principles

2024-10-07

Post‑1945 literature’s pioneers and principles: a reader’s guide to postmodernism’s global landscape and who to read now.

Literary Criticism

The Indispensable Value of Reading Literary Classics in Full

2024-08-30

Why summaries can’t replace full texts: how detail, language, and realism build judgment—and what classics teach about society and human nature.

Literary Criticism

The Art of Scale and Dialogue in the Novel

2024-06-25

Length and “unnatural” dialogue are features, not bugs: why novels use scale and crafted speech to build a resonant parallel world.

Literary Criticism

The Two Meanings of "Classic": From Ancient Style to Modern Masterpieces

2024-02-08

Two senses of “classic”: the ancient Classical style vs. works of lasting value—Austen’s restraint and Dickens’s baroque energy as a case study.