Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.