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Tully (not verified) says:
That's just plain wrong. I'm a regular reader of the NYRB, LRB, TNR, The New Yorker, LA Times BR, Prospect, etc, and none of those publications feature book reviews that push "faddish" literary theory. They're designed for a general audience of readers---ie, paying customers---and feature some of the best essay writing around: Coetzee, James Wood, Pankaj Mishra, Louis Menand. None of these guys is Gayatri Spivak. Hell, even fully paid-up academic theorists like Fred Jameson or Hal Foster write perfectly lucid, nontechnical pieces for the LRB. Just go to the websites of any of these publications and test my claim.
Sounds like you're still fighting the culture wars. Don't bother. Theory has retreated into the pages of the MLA Notes & other academic journals, where it belongs.
That's just plain wrong. I'm a regular reader of the NYRB, LRB, TNR, The New Yorker, LA Times BR, Prospect, etc, and none of those publications feature book reviews that push "faddish" literary theory. They're designed for a general audience of readers---ie, paying customers---and feature some of the best essay writing around: Coetzee, James Wood, Pankaj Mishra, Louis Menand. None of these guys is Gayatri Spivak. Hell, even fully paid-up academic theorists like Fred Jameson or Hal Foster write perfectly lucid, nontechnical pieces for the LRB. Just go to the websites of any of these publications and test my claim.
Sounds like you're still fighting the culture wars. Don't bother. Theory has retreated into the pages of the MLA Notes & other academic journals, where it belongs.