Laura Kipnis, Mark Lilla, Michael Ignatieff, Ram Guha, Thomas Chatterton Williams

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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

Fall 2021

Herausgeber: Wieseltier, Leon

Beschreibung

Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of today’s best writers and artists, along with introducing new talent, to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of culture and politics. This inaugural issue of Liberties includes:  * Michael Ignatieff on liberalism and the environment * Laura Kipnis cheers transgression * David Grossman on literature and peace * Ramachandra Guha on the Indian tragedy * Thomas Chatterton Williams on the real James Baldwin * Mark Lilla on the power of indifference * Helen Vendler on Yeats' The Second Coming; Sean Wilentz on abolition and American origins * Adam Zagajeweski on Gustav Mahler * James Wolcott on America’s modern Jacobins * Andrea Marcolongo on how language defines us * Eli Lake on the birth of American unexceptionalism * Sally Satel on the riddle of addiction * Moshe Halbertal on creating a democratic Jewish state * David Thomson on the wonder of Terrence Malick * Julius Margolin’s memoir confronting hatred * Clara Collier on plague literature * Shawn McCreesh’s personal look at a youthful community of addiction * New poetry from the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Louise Glück, Joshua Bennett, and Hannah Sullivan;  * And Leon Wieseltier (editor) and Celeste Marcus (managing editor)

Autor

Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties. Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties. Michael Ignatieff is the President of Central European University. Laura Kipnis is a Professor in the department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University and author most recently of Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. David Grossman's most recent novel is A Horse Walks into a Bar. Ramachandra Guha is the author of Ghandi: Before India and Ghandi: The Years that Changed the World. Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author most recently of Self Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race. Hannah Sullivan is author of Three Poems and The Work of Revision. Mark Lilla is a Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and the author of The Once and Future Liberal. Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University, and the author of Our Secret Disciplline: Yeats and Lyric Form. Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and the author most recently of No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding. Adam Zagajewski's most recent book of poems is Asymmetry. Louise Glück is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020, the author, among other books, of Faithful and Virtuous Nightand Poems 1962-2012. James Wolcott is the author of Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades and Hurrahs. Andrea Marcolongo is the author of The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek. Eil Lake writes a column for Bloomberg Opinion. Sally Satel is a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University's Irving Medical Center and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Moshe Halbertal's book is Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism was published this fall. Joshua Bennett is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College, and author of Being Properity Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man and The Sobbing School. David Thomson is the author most recently of Murder and the Movies. His new books A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors and Disaster Mon Amour will be published in 2021. Julius Margolin was the author of Journey to the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag recently published by Oxford University Press. Clara Collier is a writer living in California. Shawn McCreesh is a writer living in Washington, DC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liberties Journal Foundation
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781735718705
• ISBN-10: 173571870X
• Artikelnr.: 60689565