John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk. By Jennifer Schuessler Thirty ...

The scene: a graduate seminar in literature sometime in the eerily becalmed days of the mid-1990s, when for an aspirant to an academic job, the future seemed poised to break in one of two ...

Is it really surprising that dystopias are all the rage again? It might be time to start planning for the end of the world as we know it. Survival is the primary concern, of course, what with the ...

Josh Lambert argues that while Jews didn’t control the publishing world, people should be mindful of how Jewish writers and editors still benefit from their networks. (JTA) — In the postwar years, ...