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
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
“She’s become a virtuoso,” author John Updike, the literary critic for the New Yorker, said in a 2001 interview with the Montreal Gazette.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024
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
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
