“One of the most daring and intellectually exciting books of the year.”—Washington Post
“The great iconoclast of literary criticism.”—John Sutherland, Guardian
“It’s a rare literary critic who attracts so much public attention, and there’s a good reason: few are as hellbent on rethinking the way we talk about literature.”—Times Literary Supplement
“Moretti, a mythopoeic figure, generates around himself a dense network of folklore and apocrypha.”—n+1
“Moretti is already famous in bookish circles for his data-centric approach to novels, which he graphs, maps, and charts … if his new methods catch on, they could change the way we look at literary history.”—Wired
“Distant reading might prove to be a powerful tool for studying literature.”—New York Times