How to Be a Big-League Critic
Jun 03, 2019
4 minutes
DAVID LEHMAN
HERE ARE 20 USEFUL TIPS for all of you out there who want, for reasons defying common sense, to write lofty critical essays for prestigious journals:
1. Write that the subject of your choice, “as he [or she] recedes into history, seems more a product of his [or her] time than an agent of transformation.” This can be said of everyone except Napoleon, Jesus, and possibly Freud.
In a profile about a corporate executive in the news, it is always a good idea to mingle a classical prototype with a contemporary idiom, e.g., “Like Augustus Caesar, he is at peace with
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