People really like Philip Pullman’s characters. One of my best friends gave his daughter the middle name Lyra after Lyra Belacqua, the heroine of Pullman’s His ...
Tom Perrin
Tom Perrin is Associate Professor of English and Associate Provost at Huntingdon College. His book, The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction, was published in 2015, and his work has also appeared in American Literature, NOVEL, and the Times Literary Supplement. 
Harper Lee’s Bad Form
Even if, like the Paris Review’s “Daily” blog, you’ve been keeping your exquisitely curated cultural world a “Go Set a Watchman–free space,” you must have heard by now: Harper Lee’s novel sucks.1 ...