Stefan Collini

Stefan Collini, the author of Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics, is a professor of intellectual history and English literature at Cambridge University.

Currently

  • Trilling's Sandbags

    December 3, 2008

    Re-reading a literary critic who regarded intelligence as a moral imperative.

  • The Reminder-General

    May 22, 2008

    Tony Judt fears the twenty-first century has spawned a culture hell- bent on forgetting the past.

2007

  • The Close Reader

    February 1, 2007 Subscribe

    William Empson's writing shaped modern criticism. A new biography restores him to his proper eminence.

2005

  • Marxism and Form

    November 22, 2005

    Perry Anderson's Spectrum journeys through the abstract worlds of conservative and liberal intellectual thought, and leaves in its trail insights on the substance and style of ideas.

  • Grand Illusion

    February 10, 2005

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Blogs

» The Beat

Feingold's Outline for a Constitutional Presidency | In a letter to Obama, Constitution subcommittee chair seeks a commitment to end executive excess.
John Nichols

» State of Change

Mukasey, Elliott Abrams Get Last-Minute Bush Appointments | Abusing the transition process to take care of aides, friends and supporters
John Nichols

» Capitolism

Yes to Special Elections for Senators | Remember the 17th amendment?
Christopher Hayes

» The Dreyfuss Report

Panetta? Ummmmm... Well..... | Could Obama have made a weirder choice for CIA director? Here's why Panetta is doomed.
Robert Dreyfuss

» Act Now!

Allow Media into Gaza | Israel is encouraging abuses by preventing foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip.
Peter Rothberg

» Editor's Cut

A Trillion Dollar Recovery | We don't need a stimulus, we need a recovery. And that means investing $1 trillion over the next two years.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» The Notion

Hard Times Without Studs | One of Terkel’s former book editors considers a Studs-less world.
Tom Engelhardt

» And Another Thing

Bill Ayers Whitewashes History, Again | The Weathermen were not just a bunch of idealistic young people.
Katha Pollitt