Literature is rich in ethical implication, but do we incur ethical responsibilities when we write about it? Arguably we do. Literary authors seek to convey something to others, and to convey it in literary form. Perhaps, then, our accounts of literature should respect its literary qualities, not least when we bring literature into interdisciplinary contact with other discourses? Otherwise, we risk the ethical trespass of reductionism, where literature is simply seen in the other discourse’s terms. Further, it seems to be in a community’s interest – seems to help us find our moral bearings in an often bewildering world – to be able to discriminate between the ‘truth claims’ that accompany various discursive forms: say fiction, memoir, philosophy.