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Who Came Along and Ruined the Humanities?

Who Came Along and Ruined the Humanities?

By Lee Siegel | Fewer and fewer undergraduates are majoring in the humanities, and critic Lee Siegel couldn’t be happier. As he tells WSJ’s Gary Rosen, great poetry and novels are meant to be experienced in private and alone, away from the competitive pressures of the...
Reading Writers I Can’t Stand, pt. 2

Reading Writers I Can’t Stand, pt. 2

By Maria Bustillos | Here is the second and final post of this piece from The New Yorker | Once we are persuaded of the authenticity and quality of the author’s message, it remains for the reader either to contend or to submit. Moment by moment, an engaged reader will...
Reading Writers I Can’t Stand

Reading Writers I Can’t Stand

By Maria Bustillos, The New Yorker | The strange bliss of reading is mysterious even to those who are most susceptible to it. I’m not speaking here of the pleasures of learning, nor of those to be had from being drawn into an exciting story, but simply of the sensual...