Literary Criticism
Spare us the wagging finger
Few things are more tedious than books moralising about the deficiencies of yesteryear
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
Bret Easton Ellis — the enfant terrible who finally grew up
How he at last lived up to his promise
Let children’s books be children’s books
Literary hyper-analysis can do more harm than good
Gretchen Bellamy: Kindly Reviewer
Is there a book she doesn’t like?
Critical theory is dead
And theory itself has killed it
Frankie Ho: Controversialist
Frankie Ho runs into trouble in the literary world
Bring back the panjandrums
We need heavyweights to separate good from bad