Eagleton (The Truth About the Irish) has never been shy about expressing sharp, penetrating opinions. In this entertaining memoir of his childhood and intellectual development, Eagleton lives up to ...

Terry Eagleton is out with a new edition of his 1991 book Ideology: An Introduction, and it could make for some cringingly awkward moments around the University of Manchester campus. Terry Eagleton is ...

Terry Eagleton has been a literary luminary in the U.K. and the U.S. since the mid-1960s, best known for his influential work in Marxist literary and cultural theory and criticism, but also as a ...

What is to be done? The death knells for theory (deconstructive, psychoanalytic, feminist, postcolonial, queer, etc.) have been tolling for some time, tolled not least by its former extollers. It ...

Literary theorists, and probably other scholars, might be divided into two types: settlers and wanderers. The settlers stay put, “hovering one inch” over a set of issues or topics, as Paul de Man, the ...

British critic Terry Eagleton is perhaps the only Marxist intellectual ever to demonstrate a sense of humor, a fact that automatically earns him points with me. And he wields that wit to good effect ...

There is a sketch in the ’90s BBC comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie in which Hugh Laurie—primarily familiar to us uneducated Americans as the titular character of Fox’s House, M.D.––sits at a piano.

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Penguin Press. 320 pages. $30. Humour, by Terry Eagleton. Yale University Press. 224 pages. $24.

As a 10-year-old, Terry Eagleton was the "gatekeeper" at a convent of Carmelite nuns in Salford, in the north of England. The young Eagleton was on hand when young novices took the veil and shut ...