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Do We Need to be Told How to Read?

Terry Eagleton

William Giraldi on how critic Terry Eagleton escaped his Marxism long enough to write a book about reading that’s well worth reading.

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It might not bode well for our culture that we require a book called How to Read Literature. Nor might it bode well for Terry Eagleton, globally renowned literary critic cum Marxist provocateur, that he felt urged for the second time in his career to partake of the “how to”...

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