The critic giveth and he taketh away. In his review of Better Living Through Criticism, Jonathon Sturgeon counters A.O. Scott’s aversion to the idea of the critic as parasite:
Maybe the loneliness of the American critic stems from his obsession with freeing minds, which quickly become isolated monads.
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