David Mikics: 4 books

A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize–winning author turned life into art. Saul Bellow was the most lauded American writer of the twentieth century—the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and the only novelist to be...

A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics’s definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, and always a pleasure to read. They sketch the derivation and history of each term, including especially lucid...

Reading, David Mikics says, should not be drudgery, and not mere information-gathering or escape either, but a way to live life at a higher pitch. Slow Reading in a Hurried Age is a practical guide for anyone who yearns for a more meaningful, satisfying reading experience, as well as sharper reading skills and improved concentration.

Il libro-manifesto per la lettura lenta. Non si è mai letto tanto come in questi anni di rivoluzioni tecnologiche: email, siti web, sms, tweet. Siamo costantemente circondati da testi scritti, eppure mai prima d’ora la lettura è stata così rapida, superficiale, affrettata. Scorriamo sempre più...