Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

September is an exciting one in classical music, it’s a month that brings the launch of new seasons from the Dallas and Fort Worth Symphonies as well as several local chamber groups. Next week on ...

Is classical-music criticism in daily newspapers going the way of the dodo? Maybe it’s too early to tell. Or maybe we’ll never know. I attended my first forum on the crisis facing classical-music ...

There's been a lot of talk in the past few weeks about cutbacks, or possible cutbacks, in classical-music criticism. Minneapolis! The newspaper's classical critic takes a buyout when cutbacks leave no ...

John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk. By Jennifer Schuessler Thirty ...