Contemporary sex workers are weary of the snobbish class warfare in bourgeois academic, arts and literary spaces. Women are so othered in society by stigma and shame around sex, that middle-class ...

Reading, it turns out, can improve our ability to discern real-world emotion in those around us. But not just any reading will do. Airport novels or serious non-fiction don’t help, but literary ...

Literature hews to standards outside of the democratic logic. A canonical work does not attain that status by majority consent. Claims of merit do not require a reader’s consent to be authoritative.