If I ruled the world
Too many people just don’t know how to behave—or how to use words properly. Fines, jail and shoe-shining duty await them all
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More theory, please
James Wood's study of the workings of fiction displays an uncannily well-tuned ear. But for all his undoubted skills as a critic, he lacks the theoretical armoury to take on a subject as general as this -
Raine’s sterile thunder
TS Eliot's greatness as a poet is established beyond all doubt. So why do critics feel the need to defend him against all charges of misogyny and antisemitism?