John Guillory’s new book contains his attempts to answer the daunting question: What is literary criticism for? Read John Guillory's interview with the New York Times about his new book Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study.
Spring 2023
Professor Emeritus Larry Lockridge's new book, The Woman in Green, was published on January 5th by Iguana Books. The last in his Enigma Quartet, The Woman In Green features a narrator who repeatedly insults his readers of 2050 and wishes he were instead addressing readers of 2025, when somewhat fewer were boneheads. Born under a curse at the exact moment of the 9/11 attacks, he looks back on two remarkable utopian experiments-one religious, the other secular-in early 19th-century New Harmony, Indiana. He then looks ahead to his grandfather Sam Coverdale's visionary effort in the millennial year 2000 to create a new "Boatload of Knowledge" on the banks of the Wabash. His cast of characters bears an unsettling resemblance to Mary Shelley's circle of Frankenstein intimates.
To find out more about the book, please check out the page for The Woman in Green on Bookshop.
