Critical Quarterly

Probably the most influential English literary-critical journal in the academic field over the post war decades.
John Holloway, New Pelican Guide to English Literature.

'This is the only journal to remain faithful to the original spirit of cultural studies. It mixes `high' and `low' culture, criticism and creative writing without losing sight of political and social questions.'
Rosalind Coward

'Critical Quarterly has become an institution without the slightest sign of ossification.'
Brian Morton, THES

The Critical Quarterly periodically produces Special issues. Forthcoming Special Issues include:

Essentialism in Science and Culture
edited by Angelique Richardson

A Special issue in memory of Frank Kermode
edited by Stephen Heath,Colin MacCabe and Jacqueline Rose

Recent Publications include:

The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film
David Trotter

Why Are The Arabs Not Free?: The Politics of Writing
Moustapha Safouan

Black Light: Myth and Meaning in Modern Painting
Francis Gooding

Against Transgression
Ashley Tauchert

Cinema and Modernism
David Trotter

e-Modernism: telephony in British fiction 1925-1940
David Trotter

Naturalism's phobic picturesque
David Trotter

Simon Gray's diaries
David Lodge

Islamic Terrorism
Moustapha Safouan

Sixties
Chris Marker

Colin MacCabe, the editor of Critical Quarterly, is a British writer and film producer. He has published extensively on modernism, particularly Joyce and Godard, and theories and philosophy of language. He also has interests in the history of early modern and modern English and the English Renaissance.