literary critic
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Another is Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic and human rights activist, who authored a manifesto calling for democratic reform in China and was arrested in 2008.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Podhoretz’s political commitments didn’t require him to be any less discriminating a literary critic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
Roland Barthes was a French literary critic who worked in semiotics, the study of signs and symbols, just as Jung did.
From Salon • Nov. 29, 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
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
