Mark Greif

Jul 26, 2024 | harpers.org | Mark Greif

Discussed in this essay:Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization, by Fredric Jameson. Verso. 272 pages. $34.95. It is characteristic of literature departments to see waves come and go. Fredric Jameson represents something like the lapping at the shoreline, which doesn’t go away and never ceases to turn up interesting things: shells, coins, and specimens of marine life heretofore unseen.

Jan 5, 2024 | chronicle.com | David Bell |Karen Tongson |Mark Greif |Michele Lamont |Michèle Lamont

Happy New Year, dear readers of The Review! As we do each year, we convened a group of our contributors — a dozen, this time around — and asked them which works of scholarship surprised, challenged, thrilled, or impressed them most in 2023. (In a few cases, these books were published in 2022, or even 2021 — but who are we to quibble?) The selections were typically eclectic, covering a range of subjects and locales, from punk clubs in Mexico to avant-garde film festivals in Uzbekistan.