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HistorySeptember 7, 2022
Is the Avant-Garde Still Avant-Garde?
Today’s radical art movements can always congeal into tomorrow’s orthodoxy.
Stefan Collini
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BiographyJune 14, 2017
E.P. Thompson’s Search for a New Popular Front
Despite a lifetime of political disappointments, the historian never gave up on the prospects of a broad left-wing social movement.
Stefan Collini
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CultureNovember 2, 2011
Side by Side: On Britain’s School Wars
Melissa Benn attacks the deepening rift of privilege and privatization in Britain’s secondary schools.
Stefan Collini
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisNovember 10, 2010
The View From the Top Table: On Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a fine writer of "analytic reportage," but his work has lately displayed symptoms of columnitis.
Stefan Collini
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Literary CriticismDecember 3, 2008
Trilling’s Sandbags: Lionel Trilling’s Critical Essays
Re-reading a literary critic who regarded intelligence as a moral imperative.
Stefan Collini
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HistoryMay 22, 2008
The Reminder-General
Tony Judt fears the twenty-first century has spawned a culture hell- bent on forgetting the past.
Stefan Collini
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BiographyFebruary 1, 2007
The Close Reader
William Empson’s writing shaped modern criticism. A new biography restores him to his proper eminence.
Stefan Collini
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisNovember 22, 2005
Marxism and Form
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.
Stefan Collini
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BiographyFebruary 10, 2005
Grand Illusion
André Malraux incarnated a certain ideal of “the French intellectual.” A writer of international renown, he distinguished himself as a man of action before going on to become an eye-catchi
Stefan Collini