Flipping Edmund Wilson the Bird: When Does a Work of Literature Qualify as–egads!–a Mystery?
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the leading literary critics of his time, Edmund Wilson. While many of his readers, especially in academia, admire him as the author of such influential works as To the Finland Station (1940) and Patriotic Gore (1962), for this humble scribe, whose books are…