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Book Review: “Literature for a Changing Planet” — A Crash Course

Martin Puchner is stumped because what is called for is a genuinely radical rethink about what role literature and literary studies should play in avoiding the global meltdown to come.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Climate Change, Climate Crisis, literature, Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner, Princeton University Press

Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance

Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview Tagged: criticism, Harvard University Press, Juliana Spahr, Literary Resistance, literature, politics, State Containment

Book Review: The Resilient Wisdom of Tony Judt – For the Ages

Tony Judt is an American treasure, in time he may prove as great to our country as George Orwell and Albert Camus are to theirs.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: criticism, Essays 1995-2010, history, literature, Tony Judt, When the Facts Change

Book Review: Into the Labyrinth of Fragmentary Memories — The Novels of Patrick Modiano

The prose of Patrick Modiano, this year’s Nobel prizewinner, has a distinctive French style whose directness and grammatical limpidity by no means exclude semantic depth and complexity.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: french fiction, literature, Patrick Modiano, Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier, Suspended Sentences, translation, Yale-University-Press

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