As for the bill itself, its meaning is probably now best left to literary critics.

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Today, it remains a destination for poets, novelists, biographers, playwrights, translators, literary critics, historians, environmentalists and philosophers: a place for writers as agents of change.

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If one ventures beyond the single phrase that has been parsed with a verve usually reserved for literary critics, one gains a sense of Holder's sweep and intelligence in examining the racial landscape.

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As most people like their reading matter to be easily comprehensible, Mr Lindon's stable of such writers as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras and Claude Simon tended to be admired more by literary critics than by the public.

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After the overly hyped A Suitable Boy, the lengthy four-family saga that some critics derided as a literary soap opera, Vikram Seth has come back strongly.

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The award aims to raise the profile of critics and to "promote integrity and wit in literary journalism".

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The novel probably won't win over critics who regard Mr. Grahame-Smith as a literary parasite whose sole talent consists of taking existing stories and tossing in monsters and gore.

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But critics accused the Booker judges of dumbing down, and one group of literary leading lights announced a rival award.

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