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

House Passes Health Reform, But Without Reproductive Rights | Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after allowing anti-choice Dems to bar access to abortion in new programs.
John Nichols
133 Comments
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» Editor's Cut

Around The Nation | Obama, one year on. Plus: Jeremy Scahill takes your questions, and a new video series from The Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
7 Comments

» The Notion

Injustice in Illinois | Prosecutors in Illinois should be more concerned with an innocent man behind bars than journalism students' grades.
Ari Berman
28 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
137 Comments

» Act Now!

Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
16 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman