“The horror, the horror Did H. P. Lovecraft’s bigotry elevate his writing?” by Phil Baker (TLS)

Lovecraft has become a major figure in American popular culture, but the redemptive case for him as a great writer, a bigot of genius, is far from settled. He is no Céline. ©

—Ok, but it’s getting preposterous: in what world is it correct to juxtapose those two, even in a form of a disparaging trope? What’s next—HPL and Robbe-Grillet? HPL and Nathalie Sarraute? As my first academic supervisor once said, “bad literary analysis can be described as an unstoppable urge to compare everything to anything, and it’s your job not to engage” and he was absolutely correct, of course. As for the headline of the article and its content, the answer would be: by the sound of it, no.