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“To criticize properly is to show the process of judgment...to struggle with what we like.”

THE NEW CRITIC Untitled, Sarah Getraer Josie Barboriak is a 21-year-old writer from Durham, North Carolina studying at the University of Chicago. She will begin training at Johns Hopkins University to become a sociologist in the fall. I recently found myself in a spirited public disagreement with a famous literary critic. Onstage at the front of the theater, two critics sat, armchairs angled toward each other and the audience. The philosopher and public figure Agnes Callard was joined by literary critic Merve Emre (who writes for The New Yorker and is a professor of creative writing and…

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