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Critics

John Leonard (1939-2008)

by Jennifer Szalai,

A cool heat

by Jed Perl,

The intrepid genius of Edmund Wilson

The Critic as Artist

by Wyatt Mason,

James Wood???s first novel

The nightmare of literary life

by Frederic Prokosch,

Susie Creamcheese makes love not war

by Marvin Mudrick,

What Susan Sontag is full of

Dunce of the month

by Harper’s Staff,

The gracehoper and the aunts

by Marvin Mudrick,

The legacy of Cyril Connolly, literature's greatest enthusiast

Who was Leslie Fiedler? The battle continues between literature and the man who wants it dead

by Hugh Kenner,

Bloom, Bloom, go out the room! The final daze of academic criticism

by Marvin Mudrick,

A shrivel of critics

by Anthony Burgess,

Book reviewers

by Mary Ann Riley,

Lovers, not lions

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