“Please, not another piece on the role of the critic,” Wilfrid Sheed writes in Max Jamison, his 1970 novel about a splenetic drama critic going through a series of personal and professional crises. Sorry, Sheed: as I started thinking back on my year in reading, I started thinking about what the critic is doing in 2024—or, at least, what this critic aimed to do in 2024.
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