Title: This Thing We Call Literature
Description: "This Thing We Call Literature collects ten essays from the combative, cantakerous cultural critic Arthur Krystal. The essays in this compact volume, mostly coming from The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Chronicle of Higher Education--all share Krystal's conviction that literature and the humanities more broadly are going down the tubes"--
Subjects: Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century, Literature and society, Modern Literature, History and criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays