#Literary Criticism

Articles (4)

• 🇬🇧 Benjamin Wood: ‘John Fowles’s The Magus was so frustrating I threw it at the wall’ — 27/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The author on the Steinbeck novel that moved him to tears, how becoming a father inspired him to reread Marilynne Robinson, and the culinary comforts of James M Cain</p><p><strong>My earliest readi...

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• 🇺🇸 Why Has ‘Project Hail Mary’ Ignited So Much Online Debate? — 26/03/2026 [USA]

  Industry experts point to key reasons why the Ryan Gosling-led film has seen a sky-high level of social media engagement: "There's debate around a number of themes that seem to be political."

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• 🇺🇸 Another ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ Adaptation Butchers the Literary Classic Into Bore — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Despite an Oscar-winning pedigree, the latest attempt to transfer Alexandre Dumas’ swashbuckler is dogged by wooden performances and a misunderstanding of its source material.

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• 🇬🇧 Daisy Johnson: ‘I wasn’t a fan of David Szalay, but Flesh is a masterpiece’ — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The Booker-shortlisted author on a momentous teenage encounter with The Bone People, getting a buzz from Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla, and trying to avoid The Lorax</p><p><strong>My earliest reading&nb...

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