Pious Certainties, Good Criticism, and More

How have books changed? “They became tedious redoubts for the pious certainties of a besieged, over-educated and underemployed intellectual class” ... more »

Good criticism draws out the nuances within the ideas one finds the most noxious, the most difficult to dignify... more »

For readers, E.M. Forster was a stately, mild-mannered bachelor with a staid …