Jackson Arn’s work has appeared in The Nation, The New Statesman, The Point, and Lapham’s Quarterly. He is a contributing critic for The Forward and writes a monthly column for 3Quarks Daily. At present he’s driving around the Southwest.
The bulk of The Dawn of Everything is devoted to the exceptions.
As a history of art and thought in the Cold War era, The Free World is enthralling but unsatisfying, inevitably so.
We might be murderers, and we might not, but isn’t it safer to assume we are and be proven wrong? Maybe not.