Priscilla Gilman’s new memoir, “The Critic’s Daughter,” is about her tangled relationship with her father, the critic Richard Gilman.By the end of the book, there’s a lot of blood on the ...

In her new book “The Critic’s Daughter,” a memoir about her father, literary and theater critic Richard Gilman, Priscilla Gilman extends the discussion by considering whether it’s possible ...

Gilman’s books have gone out of print, but his daughter quotes them at great length, revealing the other side to his scathing judgments: a deep reverence for writing he loved.

Gilman spent nearly 50 years in academia, from assistant librarian at his alma mater Yale in 1856 to founding president of today's Carnegie Institution for Science in 1901, ... The Hub connected with ...