In praise of Annie Dillard

The American novelist and essayist Annie Dillard, who has died at the age of 81, suffused her prose with poetry and pioneered a mystical form of creative nonfiction the public loved and critics misunderstood.

Echoes of Louise

Literary critics who can only view art through a political lens disdained the late Louise Glück for writing intensely personal poetry, but because of this, rather than despite it, her luminous and fiercely intelligent writing will long outlive her.