50 Shades of literary theory: How the novel and the film reflect (and destroy) three centuries of theory
I watched the 50 Shades of Grey film on Wednesday evening, which sounds like a confession but is merely a statement of fact. It felt like the most natural conclusion… Read more »
How Harvard University Press made Walter Benjamin
Following the suicide of critic Walter Benjamin in 1940, at 48, his name was “kept alive by a small number of friends and colleagues, the kind of trickle of a… Read more »
This week in 1913: the “German Woodstock,” Walter Benjamin’s first public appearance, and Futurism becomes “the movement of the hour”
From now until the end of the year, we’ll be publishing weekly excerpts from 1913, which The Observer called “An absolute gem of a book.” 1913 was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt… Read more »