In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned "middle ground" for reason – a rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to discover shared convictions in mutual inquiry. F...

"The Knowledge Most Worth Having" represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago – faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of kno...

Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time, most notably the 1961 classic "The Rhetoric of Fiction", a book that transformed literary criticism and became the standard reference point for advanced discussions of...