Books Worth Reading · Jun 2, 2026

How wokeness made literary criticism worse

0Sign in to vote or save

This site does not allow itself to be embedded. You can still read it on the original site — the toolbar below keeps your place in the directory.

Terry Eagleton, Edmund Wilson and the shocking decline of criticism

It’s not just our literature that has been impoverished in the 21st century - it’s our criticism too.

Over the last year, I’ve been undertaking a reading project to formally upgrade my understanding of literary theory and criticism. I’m reading through Plato, Horace, Samuel Johnson, Hazlitt, Eliot, Walter Benjamin, F.R. Leavis, Isaiah Berlin, Roland Bar…

Read on booksworthreading.substack.com ↗

Comments

Nothing yet. Say the first thing.