51.   Molly is a San Francisco free-lance writer and literary critic.

52.   One problem, some literary critics say, has been that new writers too often retreat into the past to find their themes, or their characters.

53.   Over single-malt whiskey and cigarette-thin cigars, he regularly dissected the antics of government officials and literary critics.

54.   Philip Lopate, an essayist and literary critic, said he could understand how Winfrey might grow weary of picking a new book each month.

55.   Reminiscences from the literary critic best described as a polyglot polymath.

56.   Salter seems world-weary, even disgusted, that some literary critics could seize on how he describes such a personal tragedy as indicative of a supposed writing flaw.

57.   She does not function as a literary critic, but as a cheerleader for reading, reassuring viewers that books are user-friendly and relevant to their lives.

58.   She is also a literary critic of ferocious intellectual power.

59.   That they did it so temperately, without the bile that fuels literary critics when ideas run short, only made it more humiliating.

60.   The chairman of the department is Henry Louis Gates Jr., the literary critic.