Stefan Collini

Stefan Collini, the author of Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics, is a professor of intellectual history and English literature at Cambridge University.

Currently

  • Trilling's Sandbags

    December 3, 2008

    Re-reading a literary critic who regarded intelligence as a moral imperative.

  • The Reminder-General

    May 22, 2008

    Tony Judt fears the twenty-first century has spawned a culture hell- bent on forgetting the past.

2007

  • The Close Reader

    February 1, 2007 Subscribe

    William Empson's writing shaped modern criticism. A new biography restores him to his proper eminence.

2005

  • Marxism and Form

    November 22, 2005

    Perry Anderson's Spectrum journeys through the abstract worlds of conservative and liberal intellectual thought, and leaves in its trail insights on the substance and style of ideas.

  • Grand Illusion

    February 10, 2005

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Blogs

» The Beat

Facing Bipartisan Criticism, RNC's Steele Asks If Race Is Factor | "Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?” he wonders. Maybe he could compare notes with Obama.
John Nichols

» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
31 Comments

» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
43 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
27 Comments

» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
56 Comments

» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
54 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman