James Ley was the Inaugural Editor of the Sydney Review of Books from January 2013 to July 2015 and is now its Contributing Editor. He is the author of The Critic in the Modern World: Public Criticism from Samuel Johnson to James Wood (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).
James Ley
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The Necessity of an Alternative
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