The Critical Library: Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman told Critical Mass about five books she believes reviewers should have in their libraries.One title from her list:Walter Jackson Bate (editor), Criticism: The Major Texts. Any critic with a scholarly bent and a modicum of curiosity about his forebears should own this anthology, from the fourth century B.C. (Aristotle) to the mid-twentieth century (Edmund Wilson) – in other words, the