The Good of the Critic (& the novel)

'we live in "an age of drive-by reviewing, when every reader can tell the (electronic) world whether or not they 'like' a particular book."'


Interesting article on the New Yorker site about The Good of the Critic


'The Good of the Novel will not be dogmatic or prescriptive. To theorise about a genre as fluid, capacious and protean as the novel is to risk incoherence or banality. Each novel set the terms of its own reception, makes its own demands of its readers. As Amit Chaudhuri argues here, the reading of a single novel can realign one's entire aesthetic. Each novel writes its own constitution.'

How did I miss this book? Ordered.