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‘Media Literacy’ and the decline of Woke

Literary criticism

Criticism

‘Media Literacy’ and the decline of Woke

The left has entirely abandoned even the pretense of postmodern skepticism

M.W. Pedersen

The prescient politics of Tintin

The character was in effect Hergé’s alter ego, reflecting his intense interest in news and contemporary affairs

Michael Farr

Emily Howes on sisterly duty

The painter in The Painter’s Daughters is Thomas Gainsborough, famous as a great portraitist and landscape artist

Mark Bostridge

Madeleine Gray on heartbreak in the workplace

It seems predictable that criticism of Green Dot will focus on whether its heroine’s behavior is alienating or anti-feminist

Alex Peake-Tomkinson

Books

P.G. Wodehouse’s literary canon

His work’s modernity, making such innovative use of the main literary traditions of the West, would have been unimaginable in the nineteenth century

Charles Moore

Book Review
February 17, 2023
The many lives of Italo Calvino
The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays by Italo Calvino reviewed
Dennis Duncan
Books
October 13, 2022
Literary journal in flames after interview with Spectator writer
Alex Perez snaps Hobart Pulp
Cockburn
Book Review
February 21, 2022
Imagining Rimbaud
The more one knows about Rimbaud and literary criticism, the more one will enjoy the book’s subtler jibes
Micah Mattix
Books
January 24, 2022
The last conservative critic?
Jeet Heer wonders if Terry Teachout was the last of his kind
Micah Mattix
Books
October 7, 2021
Has COVID killed criticism?
Who benefits from an absence of criticism? Not the consumer
Tanya Gold
Books
November 19, 2020
Harold Bloom finally betrays how little he really understood literature
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind Over a Universe of Death by Harold Bloom reviewed
Philip Hensher
Book Review
December 19, 2019
Who are today’s fictional heroes?
The Hero by Lee Child reviewed
Sam Leith
Books
October 31, 2019
As well as being a mythic tale, Moby-Dick is a superb a guide to oceanography
Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by Richard J. King reviewed
Stephen Phillips
Books
June 20, 2019
How does today’s world compare with Orwell’s nightmare vision?
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four by Dorian Lynskey reviewed
Jean Seaton
Books
October 18, 2018
150 years on, what makes Little Women such an enduring classic?
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why it Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux reviewed
Lucy Mangan

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