LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

American Pastoral

Einstein's Dreams

Nausea

The Waste Land and Other Poems

The Hearing Trumpet

The Trouble With Being Born

No Time to Spare

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

The Weird and the Eerie

A Short History of Decay

The Letters of J.r.r. Tolkien

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Western Canon

A Perfect Vacuum

The Language of the Night

Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Great Books

Around the World in 80 Books

Updike

The World Broke in Two

Gold

The Most Dangerous Book

Basic Writings

The Temptation to Exist

S/z

The Dawn Watch

Philip Roth

James Joyce's Ulysses

Exile's Return

Lectures on Don Quixote

The Written World and the Unwritten World

Burn This Book

Reading Rilke Reflections on the Problems of Translations

How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken

Life Worth Living

The Unforgivable

The Geography of the Imagination

Basic Writings of Existentialism

Edgar A. Poe: a Biography

The Liberal Imagination

Language, Counter-memory, Practice

Raymond Chandler

The Mirror and the Lamp

Everything and Less

Ulysses Unbound

What in Me Is Dark

Wonder Confronts Certainty

The Portable Twentieth-century Russian Reader

Defending the West

The Tower and the Ruin

Two Cheers for Democracy

Understanding David Foster Wallace

The World, the Text, and the Critic

Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce

Understanding Pat Conroy

Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

On Native Grounds

Searching for Cioran

The Utopia Reader, Second Edition