ns 69 | Fall/Winter 2007

Featuring an interview with MH Abrams, reviews of new books by Walter Benn Michaels, John McGowan, and Paul Smith, plus a special section on online criticism.

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Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works in European intellectual history and Jewish history. His scholarly work has appeared in Literature and Theology and his journalism in Gastronomica.

Poetry | Fiction | Interviews & Essays | Revaluations | Surveying the Field

Surveying the Field

• Within Sight of Syracuse: (on Stefan Collini's Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain [Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006]; Mark Lilla's The Reckless Mind [New York: New York Review of Books, 2001]; Edward Said's Humanism and Democratic Criticism [New York: Columbia UP, 2004]; and Michael Warner's "Styles of Intellectual Publics," Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in the Public Arena, ed. Jonathan Culler and Kevin Lamb [Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003])
  Appears in: ns 68: Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature & the "Being at Work" Poetry Challenge

MR BOOKS

Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.

Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.

Purchase Critics at Work.