George Scialabba
Do these “four late nineteenth-century visionaries” still speak to us?
Read MoreReading the essays in this collection is like receiving a first-rate tutorial on the way we live now and how we got here.
Read MoreBerman finds a submerged psychic and cultural stratum in Japanese culture that might supply possible antidotes to the US’s consumerist and individualist fevers.
Read MoreGeorge Scialabba is still outfoxing the professional eggheads in For the Republic, his third collection of essays on political and cultural topics.
Read MoreJonathan I. Israel has written a monumental three-volume history of the Enlightenment, approximately 2500 pages long, not including three lengthy bibliographies. His erudition is fabulous; his range is dizzying.
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Book Review: George Scialabba’s “Only a Voice” — Time to Roll Up Our Sleeves
It’s good to discover that George Scialabba is as lively as ever and that “Only a Voice” is filled with provocative arguments that make the reader want to argue right back.
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