English Literature
Fielding Sterne questions
The novel world of English literature in the 1700s
An off-kilter visionary
Henry Green had a strange and distinctive talent
Orwell, Camus and truth
On honesty as an attitude
The humanities aren’t dying; they’re emigrating
Humanities catastrophists are just professionally insecure
Keep physical books
We have to protect cultural history
All sweetness and light
Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives
Philip Larkin: the man who was always right
The great man’s peerless poetry is not the “soppy stuff” of cheap romanticism, but a harsh, unsparing — and often beautiful — look at the world
How I used to love and now hate the London Review of Books
Speaking words of wisdom, LRB
The ascent of Barbara Pym
A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts
Must we mourn a decline in English degrees?
It does not entail the decline of English literature