The real pleasure in reading Jerome Loving's excellent biography is less the literary criticism than the jaunts first across young America with a young Twain, and then overseas as he grows more established.

ECONOMIST: A man who never let anything stand in the way of a joke

The latest example, which manages quite epically to combine both those forms of snobbery, comes from Sir Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement and Man Booker Prize judge, who has expressed fears that the standard of literary criticism has slipped and that book bloggers are some sort of literary kryptonite that will destroy the industry.

FORBES: Who Reviews The Reviewers?

The reader in search of literary criticism, or even the origins of absurdist thought, will not find it in the three new biographies.

ECONOMIST: In search of the real Camus

Such are the mysteries of literary criticism.

NEWYORKER: Once Upon a Time

Literary criticism became the coinage in which old family feuds were paid and repaid.

WSJ: Book Review: New Ways to Kill Your Mother

Unusually, a little more literary criticism would have augmented the picture, especially some appraisal of Stevenson's chiselled, graceful style.

ECONOMIST: Literary lives

Despite the success of this first substantial venture into literary criticism, or what F.

UNESCO: The Uses of Richard Hoggart

At Dalkey Archive Press, a publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, Davies says he expects a book editor at the Press to have a solid grounding in the traditions represented by the company.

FORBES: The Lives (And Salaries) Of Magazine And Book Editors