The Jewish Body in Pain
Sunny S. Yudkoff’s cultural lens is intriguing, but her close readings of literary works are what enliven "Tubercular Capital."...
Our Placeless Condition
Hadji Bakara reviews Lyndsey Stonebridge’s “Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees.”...
tl;dr: On “Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century”
Gill Partington makes time for Christina Lupton’s “Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century.”...
Why Literature Professors Turned Against Authors — Or Did They?
The intentions of authors still matter, no matter what the critics say....
Letter to the Editor: Timothy Aubry Responds to Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s Review of His “Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures”
Timothy Aubry responds to Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s LARB review of his “Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures” (December 12, 2018)....
Tolstoy Untangled: On Donna Tussing Orwin’s “Simply Tolstoy”
Bob Blaisdell appreciates “Simply Tolstoy” by Donna Tussing Orwin....
Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
Jeff J. Williams talks to Bruce Robbins about George Orwell, the Sokal hoax, and his recent book, “The Beneficiary.”...
The Aesthetic Is Back; It Never Left
Jean-Thomas Tremblay reviews Timothy Aubry’s “Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures.”...
What Does Literary Studies Know?
Michael Clune reads Jonathan Kramnick’s “Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness.”...
Modest Witnesses
Two recent books make the case that the birth of the sciences relied on a series of personal transformations and imaginative leaps....
A Mutual Bewitchment
A literary friendship, scrupulously enshrined....
Economic and Literary Speculations
"How can the novel, and in particular the realist novel, deal with an event like the flash crash of 2010 or something like high-frequency trading?"...
