It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for
understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what …

Critical Affect explores the emotional complexity of critique and maps out its enduring value
for the turn to affect and ontology. Through a series of vivid close readings, Ashley Barnwell …

Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the
Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern …

Cynthia Ozick is often considered one of the few writers willing to identify herself specifically
as a Jewish writer. Yet this characterization of Ozick obscures more than it illuminates. By …

This essay responds to Winfried Fluck's review of The Limits of Critique (2015). While
appreciating the care and attention with which Fluck reads my book, I do not see the book as …

THIS ARTICLE SUGGESTS THAT THE SELF-CONSCIOUSLY POLEMICAL TENOR of
recent conversations about critical method has hindered efforts to change or diversify our …

Arguing that existing modernisation theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig
Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies-nature and …

This article reports on a pilot study into the reading practices of students and faculty in
history, philosophy, and literature in Denmark and the UK. The qualitative interviews with …

This article argues that Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's notion of planetarity is premised on a
practice of reading. Reading for the planet involves deferring the world in order to participate …

Abstract Amani Haydar's The Mother Wound is characteristic of what, drawing on John
Hartsock, might be called a memoir-cum-literary journalism supra-genre. Using The Mother …