The word “awesome” is most easily used by adolescents these days, but the range of learning that the critic and novelist George Steiner possessed was awesome in the old-fashioned, grown-up sense: ...

Literary critic and essayist George Steiner has died in the UK, aged 90. The French-US scholar passed away in Cambridge, where he had spent half a century as an Extraordinary Fellow at Churchill ...

George Steiner was a renowned literary critic who trained his formidable mind on literature that spanned millennia, from the ancient classics to works of modern masters, exalting European humanism ...

George Steiner, the celebrated and polarizing literary critic whose work was shaded by the specter of the Shoah, died February 3 at his home in Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. He was 90. A ...

He ranged over subjects like the origins of speech, the moral power of literature and the future of truth — and sometimes drew criticism himself. By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and William Grimes George ...