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Evan Kindley

Evan Kindley is the author of Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture and a coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to the Essay. He teaches at Pomona. (March 2023)

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Departments on the Defensive

A new book by John Guillory explores the history of literary studies and casts a despairing eye at the future of literary criticism.

Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

by John Guillory

March 9, 2023 issue

The People We Know Best

Readers love fictional characters almost as if they were real people. Literary scholars are just starting to take them more seriously.

Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies

by Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi

Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession

by Marjorie Garber

Character as Form

by Aaron Kunin, with illustrations by David Scher

Balzac’s Lives

by Peter Brooks

March 25, 2021 issue

To Err Is Poetic

The poetry canon is dotted with mistakes large and small; why do some critics seem attached to reading these errors as intentional?

The Poet’s Mistake

by Erica McAlpine

February 11, 2021 issue

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