Walter Benn Michaels has just completed a new book, The Beauty of a Social Problem; Photography, Autonomy and Political Economy, forthcoming in Spring 2015 from the University of Chicago Press. He is the author of The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History, Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism, and The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Is Life Worth Living?
Walter Benn Michaels explains his reservations about Martin Hägglund's "This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom."...
50 Shades of Libertarian Love
Walter Benn Michael's excerpt from from a longer piece forthcoming in "Neoliberalism and Literature."...
Black and White
Insofar as poverty is the problem, Warren argues, history has nothing to do with the solution....
What Was African American Literature? A Symposium
Warren leaves us with several productively troubling conclusions....
