“What Is Literature?”

C. S. Lewis, who seems wiser the older I get, gave a series of lectures at Cambridge after transferring there from Oxford. These became An Essay on Criticism. As professor of Renaissance and Medieval Literature…

Today’s One-Liner (#302)

A novel is a trap, a maze into which we are drawn by the plot until we are swallowed up by the narrative, becoming  its prisoner and confidante.  –Abram Tertz,  A Voice from the Chorus,…