Critical Lives II
Volume 39, Number 2-3
January-April 2018
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Robert T. Tally, Jr.’s Introduction to Focus: “A Life in Theory”
Gina Masucci MacKenzie reviews Élisabeth Roudinesco’s Freud: In His Time and Ours
Kenneth Surin reviews Stuart Jeffries’s Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
J. Craig Hanks reviews Stefan Müller-Doohm’s Habermas: A Biography
Ian Cook reviews Reinhard Mehring’s Carl Schmitt: A Biography
Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Tiphaine Samoyault’s Barthes: A Biography
Ronald Bogue reviews Frida Beckman’s Gilles Deleuze
Stuart Elden’s “Do We Need a New Biography of Michel Foucault?”
Lawrence Grossberg reviews Stuart Hall’s Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands
Robert T. Tally, Jr. reviews Gary A. Olson’s Stanley Fish, America’s Enfant Terrible
Guy Risko reviews William V. Spanos’s On The Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum
Thais Rutledge reviews Viviane Forrester’s Virginia Woolf: A Portrait
Marie Fahd reviews Joseph Tabbi’s Nothing Grew but the Business
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
