Colin Dayan

Colin Dayan is Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. Her recent books include The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, The Story of Cruel and Unusual, and, most recently, With Dogs at the Edge of Life. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

“Israel Potter”; or, the Excrescence

On Melville’s neglected “epic of the piecemeal.”...

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FICTION

LITERARY CRITICISM

How to Remember My Mother

This piece will appear in the LARB Print Quarterly Journal: No. 15, Revolution Become a member to receive the LARB Quarterly Journal I SAW SOMETHING on my left cheek. I thought it was a scab. I pulled it off. It was ...

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NONFICTION

Goring Beauty

Over 50 years later, more than half a century, I look at the pictures. Out of boxes and other wooden and steel containers, and buried deep under other albums, come these relics of a honeymoon....

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Throw Away Your Mind

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LITERARY CRITICISM

The Boycott Effect

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