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Criticism

Mmm, mmm, simulacrum

by Frank Gannon,

Barbeque

by Jane P. Tompkins,

by Mark Edmundson,

Deconstructing the de Man scandal

by Umberto Eco,

by Clayton Koelb,

by Hugh Kenner,

Poetry isn't what it used to be, but then it never was

by James Wolcott,

Nine hundred pages of criticism prove that John Updike is no air-dancing dandy

by Hugh Kenner,

The astute eye of Guy Davenport

by Peter Shaw,

The dismal state of English studies

by Eric Larsen,

by Richard Condon,