In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last
seven years in the New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere,
renowned American critic Adam Kirsch explores the intersection of
literature with larger questions about ideas, history, and society.
Kirsch has been described as elegant and astute . . . a] critic of
the very first order (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). In Rocket
and Lightship he examines the work and lives of writers past and
present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, and Walter
Benjamin to novelists including E. M. Forster, David Foster
Wallace, and Zadie Smith. Kirsch quotes G. M. Hopkins: Nor rescue,
only rocket and lightship, shone. So, according to Kirsch, shines
literature: as an unattainable speed, as a moving beacon.
Taken together, the provocative and bold essays in Rocket and
Lightship show how literature can illuminate questions of meaning,
ethics, and politics, and how those questions shape the way we take
pleasure in art."
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