literary critic
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Podhoretz’s political commitments didn’t require him to be any less discriminating a literary critic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
The documentary captures the important moments in his life, including meeting his wife Edna, an author and literary critic, while studying together at Trinity College Dublin and his close friendship with Seamus and Marie Heaney.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2024
“In the decades after the war, there was pressure to make the Holocaust fit a moral framework,” Ruth Franklin, a biographer and literary critic, said in a phone interview.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024
In a later chapter, Toscano resurrects another ‘70s radical, the Italian literary critic Furio Jesi, whose extraordinary insights into the “religion and mythology of death” in right-wing culture were entirely new to me.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2024
She was brilliant, had been an avid reader her whole life, and she was a terrific literary critic, editor, and proofreader.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
