Plural Visions | The Point Magazine
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What might a critical environment that values criticism’s interpersonal stakes look like?
This essay concludes our interview series “Criticism in Public,” which ran on a biweekly basis in the spring. Find previous entries in the series here . Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about John Williams’s Stoner and Dionne Brand’s Theory, two academic novels with wretched protagonists who represent what I see as the most unflattering sides of scholars. Stoner is an extremely mediocre dad, husband, friend, lover, teacher and writer whose only positive attribute is his attachment to literature. T heory ’s protagonist is self-obsessed, considers themself as far more brilliant than those around
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