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How modern literary criticism came to be – with a little help from TS Eliot, FR Leavis, Raymond Williams and others

I am very conscious of the great honour of being invited to participate in this seminar (2012) as someone who did not belong to the same international current as Daniel Bensaïd and only got to know him in the last decade of his life. But as soon as we met, what drew me towards Daniel was not simply his immense personal qualities—his strength of character, warmth and kindness, and a dry sense of humour congenial to an Anglo-Saxon sensibility (although inflected by Daniel's strong ...

The writer and thinker opens up on the changing nature of reading and aspects of her iconic career

Terry Eagletons richly informed writing is enhanced by perspicacity, wit, and discrimination. Yet his focus on five writers in Critical Revolutionaries is missing something.

An article on fascist musican and writer Michael Moynihan and his efforts to publicise the ideas of American Nazi James Mason through the publication of his book Siege. Originally published in 2010 on the Who Makes The Nazis website.

Profile of fascist musician Boyd Rice and review of his book "Standing in Two Circles". Originally published in 2010 on the Who Makes The Nazis website.

“Ulysses” has become a symbol for all the wrongheaded and frustrating ways we talk and think about the way art is made and received and appreciated.

Today is Dog Walking Day...

Introduction For the most part socialists and members of organized religion seem to be opposites. After all, didn’t Marx say religion was the opium of the people, the heart of a heartless world? But has it always been this way? Socialists in the 19th century had very different ideas about the importance of mythology, ritual,

Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters