In a conversation with our editor, Lauren Klein, Tanvi Sharma, Shiyao Li, and Margy Adams reflect on their digital humanities project at Emory University, Data by Design: A History in Five Charts. The co-authors reflect on visualizing difficult histories, and the unique ways in which digital humanities allows us to make arguments.

(Co-written by AG and Ted Underwood.) Of all our literary-historical narratives it is the history of criticism itself that seems most wedded to a stodgy history-of-ideas approach—narrating change through a succession of stars or contending schools.

In light of several recent posts around here about reading (as genre, as practice, and as cultural marker), I thought I'd take the occasion of my first post to complicate reading—and all that it entails—a little more.