It started in the colleges and now it's everywhere  

Two interesting and related pieces from earlier this week: the first is a survey of the canon wars from the New York Times Review of Books, which comes with an excellent reading list; the second is Joseph Epstein's piece on the literary life and how it's changed in the last 25 years. The latter fails to mention anything about literary expression and community and the internet -- which is forgivable, given the context, but still disappointing.