The Editors | Fredric Jameson 1934-2024
Sep 23, 2024 · Fredric Jameson died yesterday at the age of 90. He had taught since 1985 at Duke University. His many books include The Political Unconscious, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism and The Antinomies of Realism (reviewing which, Michael Wood observed that ‘Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think but almost no one does’).
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The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815-1945 by N.A.M. Rodger. Allen Lane, 934 pp., £40, October, 978 0 7139 9412 4
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Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Poem’
Jorie Graham, the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-94.Her other collections include The End of Beauty, P L A C E and Runaway.To 2040 came out last year.
Terry Eagleton · The Excitement of the Stuff: On Fredric Jameson
Oct 10, 2024 · Terry Eagleton has written around fifty books, including, most famously, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), and around eighty LRB pieces. His subjects have included critics (Erich Auerbach, Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, I.A. Richards, Stanley Fish, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion and many novels.He taught for many years at Oxford, becoming the Warton ...
Brandon Taylor · Is it even good? Two Years with Zola
Apr 4, 2024 · Brandon Taylor’s proposal that Zola’s Rougon-Macquart novels should be read not in publication order but in a sequence dictated by the fictional lives of their protagonists owes much, as Taylor acknowledges, to Ernest Vizetelly (LRB, 4 April).But Vizetelly’s priority was to market the translations of Zola’s novels. By grouping …
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One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as I did a few weeks ago. A former journalist turned fixer told me there were ‘no foreign tourists and journalists, no income for us and, with no development aid from France, most social development projects have come to a standstill’.
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A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum. Oxford, 482 pp., £26.99, March, 978 0 19 769490 9