Literary Criticism

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Articles tagged with Literary Criticism

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The New York Times and the Critic Who Borrowed a Sentence from a Machine

The NYT has parted ways with critic Alex Preston after he admitted using AI in a January review, which happened to reproduce language from a Guardian piece. The mechanism of accountability worked, more or less. The more interesting question is what the episode actually reveals.

Publishing Industry Artificial Intelligence Literary Criticism New York Times

N Nicolas Parola · Apr 10, 2026 · 3 min read

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Is Prestige Fiction Dead? That Depends on Who You Ask

A recent essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books conducts what it calls a 'depressing literary autopsy' of prestige fiction's decline. But before the funeral, it's worth asking: prestige for whom?

Literary Criticism Literary Canon Literary Culture

N Nicolas Parola · Mar 20, 2026 · 3 min read