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Len Gutkin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Senior Editor @ChronicleReview. Author of *Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present* @uvapress.

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Book Cover for: Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism, Julia Schleck

Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism

Julia Schleck
Len GutkinLen Gutkin

On the American Historical Review's enormous forum reviewing the 1619 project. And recs: @tony_domestico talks with @jennfrey about T.S. Eliot; Mark D. Jordan on "new" Foucault @BostonReview; Michael Meranze on Julia Schleck's "Dirty Knowledge" in LARB: https://t.co/WR0C8Sga0D

Paperback, 2022

$25.00Member price:$23.75 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study, John Guillory

Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

John Guillory
Len GutkinLen Gutkin

1/ Two substantial reviews of John Guillory's Professing Criticism, by Eric Bennett and Bruce Robbins respectively. Bennett: https://t.co/hUAGE8fMTV

Paperback, 2022

$29.00Member price:$27.55 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie, Leonard W. Levy

Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie

Leonard W. Levy
Len GutkinLen Gutkin

I try to untangle the relationship between "blasphemy" and hurt feelings in a secular society -- by way of Joan W. Scott's new @ChronicleReview essay and Leonard W. Levy's 1993 magnum opus. Plus: recs from @readliberties and @nybooks: https://t.co/a7kLaimeAn

Paperback, 1995

$65.00Member price:$61.75 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Durkheim: A Critical Introduction, Kieran Allen

Durkheim: A Critical Introduction

Kieran Allen
Len GutkinLen Gutkin

Some great recs this week: Kieran Allen on Durkheim's politics @jacobin, Sam Kriss on the (missing) school massacre novel @the_point_mag, and Liza Batkin on intellectual copyright law and Andy Warhol @nybooks. https://t.co/OGYbLZaB4l

Paperback, 2017

$31.95Member price:$31.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)