One of the founders of feminist criticism and still one of its most important and influential practitioners, Elaine Showalter invented what she calls gynocritics, "concerned with woman as writer--with woman as the producer of textual meaning, with the...

ELAINE SHOWALTER has the darndest bad luck. First, Inventing Herself, her chatty new book about feminist superstars, preaching the merits of free love and risk-taking, hit the bookstores at about the same time that intern Chandra Levy went missing, possibly as the result...

BY HER own admission, the Princeton English professor Elaine Showalter gave up writing essays on feminist criticism in 1989. "Like the cat we got for the children, who hung on, hungry, demanding, and querulous, long after the children had grown up and left home,"...

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first...

"Clearly, we're in a losing battle, short of shackling ourselves to the fence," the comedian told The Real Estate. "That doesn't mean we should stop ourselves from trying." Tuesday night, he'll be performing in Park Slope's tweedy hangout Union Hall for Laugh Don't Destroy, a...

In the following review, Crews argues that Showalter “builds no conceptual bridge” between her topics in Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture, noting that Showalter's arguments are weak and poorly supported.

In the following review, English lauds the central themes of Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage, complimenting the unlikely parallels that Showalter creates between the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Diana, Princess of Wales.

In the following review, Micale praises Showalter's examination of feminine hysteria in Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture.