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When The Fellowship of the Ring was first released, literary critic Edmund Wilson assailed Tolkien for creating polarized characters—characters that were either good or evil, and nothing in between. Sauron and his servants are the utter embodiment of evil, with no goal other than to dominate the world under a pall of darkness. Frodo, Gandalf and Aragorn, the protagonists of the novel, have no wish other than to see Middle Earth live in peace and are willing to sacrifice themselves to attain that goal...
...TIME critic Christopher John Farley interviewed hip-hop superstar Aaliyah shortly before she died last August in a plane crash. This week, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Aaliyah: More Than a Woman, Farley looks at her last movie role, as the vampire Akasha in Queen of the Damned, at time.com/sampler...
...Everyone has become a literary critic,” novelist and member of London’s literary intelligentsia Martin Amis proclaims in the foreword to The War Against Cliché, and not without a touch of bitterness. Accused by his father, the equally, if not more famous novelist Kingsley Amis, of a “terrible compulsive vividness in his style,” Amis the younger has never been one to pander to the masses. At his best, he is a witty purveyor of critical and cultural insight; at his worst, he is an arrogant misogynist. Like many...
George Steiner, renowned writer, scholar and critic, gave his sixth and final lecture, titled “Unageing Intellect,” as the 2000-2001 Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry last night to great applause before an overflow crowd in Sackler Lecture Hall...
...architectural panel recently convened in Washington agreed, arguing that skyscrapers offer advantages besides practicality. "Tall buildings allow many people in a relatively small space to interact with one another," said Robert Campbell, an architecture critic...