Pierre Bayard won’t mind if you don’t read his latest book, said Deborah Solomon in The New York Times. The University of Paris literature professor claims that nonreaders turned it into a best-seller ...

As always, Bayard playfully counters the ways literary academics read with the way real people read as he explains his theory of “detective criticism.” Arguing that Sherlock Holmes often drew false ...

Bayard (Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?), a professor of French literature at the University of Paris openly (if not entirely convincingly), confesses to having neither the time nor the inclination to do ...