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Ada Louise HuxtableAleister CrowleyAlexander WoollcottAlfred Kazin
Alphonse KarrAnatole BroyardAndrea DworkinArthur C. Danto
Barbara JohnsonBell HooksBrendan GillBrooks Atkinson
Charles LambCharles LambertChris MorrisChris Morrison
Chris MorrisseyChristopher RicksChuck KlostermanClive Bell
Edmund WilsonElizabeth HardwickEric BentleyGene Shalit
George SteinerGotthold Ephraim LessingHarold BloomHarry Knowles
Hilton KramerHippolyte TaineIsaac GoldbergJ. Russell Lynes
James WolcottJay CocksJoel SiegelJohn Churton Collins
John DennisJohn LahrJohn Mason BrownJohn Simon
Kenneth TynanLeon EdelLeonard MaltinLeslie Fiedler
Lester BangsLionel TrillingLogan Pearsall SmithLouis Kronenberger
Lytton StracheyMalcolm CowleyMargaret FullerMax Nordau
Mel GussowNorthrop FryePamela Hansford JohnsonPaul De Man
Paul GoldbergerPaul WeyrichPauline KaelRex Reed
Richard RoeperRobert HughesRobert McchesneyRoger Ebert
Roland BarthesSerge DaneySir John SimonStephen Bayley
Stephen GreenblattTerry EagletonTimothy WhiteTony Parsons
Van Wyck BrooksVincent CanbyVissarion BelinskyWalter Benjamin
Walter H. PaterWalter KerrWilliam HazlittWilliam Warburton