David Bromwich

David Bromwich teaches literature and political thought at Yale. He writes on America’s wars for the Huffington Post.

In the LRB Archive:

• Obama’s Delusion: The Presidential Letdown · 22 October 2009

• Self-Deceptions of Empire: Reinhold Niebuhr · 23 October 2008

  • The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr

• Diary: President-Speak · 10 April 2008

• Neutered Valentines: James Agee · 7 September 2006

  • ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’, ‘A Death in the Family’, Shorter Fiction by James Agee
  • Film Writing and Selected Journalism by James Agee
  • Brooklyn Is by James Agee

• Magnifico: This was Orson Welles · 3 June 2004

  • Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life by Peter Conrad

• Between the Raindrops: The Subtlety of James Stewart · 12 December 2002

  • James Stewart at the NFT

• Who had the most fun?: The Marx Brothers · 10 May 2001

  • Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kanfer
  • The Essential Groucho by Groucho Marx, edited by Stefan Kanfer

• A Millennial Twilight Faith that Has No Politics to Speak of · 18 May 2000

  • Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction by Philip Fisher

• What We Have: Tarantinisation · 4 February 1999

  • The Origins of Postmodernity by Perry Anderson
  • The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-98 by Frederic Jameson

• Shoe-Contemplative on The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style by Tom Paulin · 18 June 1998

  • The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style by Tom Paulin

• Of the Mule Breed on Robert Southey · 21 May 1998

  • Robert Southey: A Life by Mark Storey

• Rat Poison · 17 October 1996

  • Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life by Martha Nussbaum

• Slow Deconstruction · 7 October 1993

  • Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminars and Other Papers by Paul de Man, edited by E.S. Burt, Kevin Newmark and Andrzej Warminski
  • Serenity in Crisis: A Preface to Paul de Man 1939-1960 by Ortwin de Graef

• Narcissus and Cain · 6 August 1992

  • Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft, Matilda by Mary Shelley edited by Janet Todd
  • Lady Sophia Sternheim by Sophie von La Roche, edited by James Lynn

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