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“... on hinges, clamps, buttons, zippers, Velcro, laces, knots, stitches, tape, stickers and glue,’ Rita Felski writes. ‘What are their aesthetic equivalents?’ In Hooked, she examines the way we connect to novels, films, paintings and music, and argues that our enthusiasms should be an integral part of conversations about art. Only this can deliver the ...”

“... distinguishing what a form of inquiry may legitimately address from what is off-bounds to it. Rita Felski’s bold, stylish new study, however, is about critique in the less specialised sense of critical analysis. It is not a work about the limits of setting limits but a critical view of the idea of critique, or at least of a certain widely accepted ...”

“... discussed in Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies (2019), co-written by Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski and Toril Moi. Felski points out that ‘characters do not have to be deep, well rounded, psychologically complex, or unified’ to become both vital presences and universal common property: Hercule ...”