Critic At Large

Lee Siegel’s picked up another critic job – he’s signed on as books critic for The Nation. But he’s also holding on to his TV critic’s job at The New Republic. And he’s going to be twice-a-month art critic for Slate. “He’s doing something very brave,” New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier said, on the phone while traveling in Chicago. “He’s trying to earn a living as a freelance intellectual.”