Eugene Goodheart argues here, with vigor and style, that contemporary criticism has lost its moral authority, and he blames modernism for that loss.read more
Eugene Goodheart examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation, arguing that the targets of deconstructive suspicion are fundamental......read more
In this memoir, Goodheart, an American, secular Jew searches for self. Though taught Yiddish as a child, Goodheart explains that he did not pass it on to his children. Here, he wonders......read more
Criticism, as I understand and practice it, is evaluative as well as interpretive, writes Eugene Goodheart. Pieces of Resistance is a collection of Goodheart's essays and reviews written......read more
Goodheart argues against literary theorists on the right and left in this defense of the value of literary complexity. Finding both left-wing subversives and right-wing traditionalists......read more