As anyone who reads my blog knows, I love (literary, film, and art) criticism.  And, in many ways, I feel as if, through criticism, I am disclosing something about this or that story that has never be touched on before.  And this thing that I am bringing out marks a direction or a tendency toward … Continue reading Tendencies: A Note on Walter Benjamin, Immanent Critique, Magical Observation, and the Schlemiel