On 31 May 2016, at 19:57, Jamie McKendrick wrote:
Tim, I take it then (and this is the context in which my remark was made – a context evidently missed by Michael) that the ‘hard and polemical’, elsewhere ‘vicious’, style of reviewing you undertook was directed only towards the ‘mainstream’. I can see that might be a way of evening the scores against a climate of adulation but surely the same policy might usefully be directed also towards ‘the linguistically innovative circles’? I have a feeling you agree with my point and may have even made it yourself – where, by the way, is that Academia article to be found?