Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner by Robert BoyersRequirements: .ePUB reader, 13 mbOverview: This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status—Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner principally in Europe, though also for a […]
The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies by Robert BoyersRequirements: .MP3 reader, 162.4 MBOverview: Ten linked essays from public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers that elegantly and fiercely address the most relevant and controversial ideas of the day – from identity and privilege to appropriation and diversity – and […]
The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals by Robert BoyersRequirements: .PDF reader, 1.2 MbOverview: As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century’s most transformative […]
The Dictator’s Dictation: The Politics of Novels and Novelists by Robert BoyersRequirements: .PDF reader, 2 MbOverview: In these elegant essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper’s, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W. G. Sebald and Philip […]
Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945 by Robert BoyersRequirements: .PDF reader, 17 MbOverview: What constitutes a political novel? In this sharply argued book Robert Boyers Demonstrates that the genre is very much alive and cites as evidence the works of writers such as Gunter Grass, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, and Milan Kundera. Boyers […]