Subject: The Review: We're Off to the Method Wars If you were paying attention to academic Twitter last week, especially those precincts occupied by scholars of literature, you might have noticed a several-day-long flare-up over questions of interpretation and critique. (Search "method wars" and you'll see what I mean.) Although occasioned by recent arguments around the work of Rita Felski — most immediately, a defense of her "postcritique" in The Point and a critique of it in the Los Angeles Review of Books — this debate deserves to be seen in a wider view, encompassing not only Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's 1997 essay "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading" but also a tradition of essays on literary criticism's relationship to "philology," including especially Edward Said's "The Return to Philology" (in