In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. . . . Odessa is both celebration and lament and equally impressive as both.

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.