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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 southern accent, the product of a clime very different from the damp island I inhabit)—but the...

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

Terry Eagleton's 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.