“There can be no doubt that American literature has considerably suffered from the platitudinous didactic note.” — George S. Hellman, ...

“Susan Sontag wrote in her essay ‘Against Interpretation’ that ‘in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.’ ...

“Having been since age 7 rigidly instructed in an eschatology that pointed nowhere but to a presidency and death, trained ...