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Wrap Up The Week: Allegory, Unfinished Art, The Future of Novels, Apostrophes! and Literary Criticism Revisited

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The Oxonian Review presents Wrap Up the Week, featuring articles the editorial staff have found interesting, illuminating, or otherwise noteworthy.

1. ‘Save the Allegory!’ [1]: Laura Miller muses on how meanings erode

2. ‘Why we love unfinished art’ [2]: David Hensher weighs in on our fascination for uncompleted works

3. ‘Is literature a dying animal?’ [3]: Edna O’Brien on the future of the Novel

4. ‘Apostrophe-gate’ [4]: Sarah Sweet reflects on the peculiar sense of righteousness associated with a punctuation mark

5. ‘The Art of the Book Review’ [5]: Michael Lind goes back to a classic of literary criticism