David Simpson

David Simpson is G.B. Needham Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California at Davis. His books include 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration and, most recently, Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity.

In the LRB Archive:

• At the Opium Factory: Amitav Ghosh · 22 October 2009

  • Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

• A Positive Future: Ernst Cassirer · 26 March 2009

  • Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture by Edward Skidelsky
  • The Symbolic Construction of Reality: The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer edited by Jeffrey Andrew Barash

• Wandering Spooks: Vietnam’s Ghosts · 14 August 2008

  • Ghosts of War in Vietnam by Heonik Kwon

• Is It Glamorous?: Stefan Collini among the Intellectuals · 6 March 2008

  • Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain by Stefan Collini

• Iwo Jima v. Abu Ghraib: the iconic image · 29 November 2007

  • No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture and Liberal Democracy by Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites

• Six Wolfs, Three Weills: emigration from Nazi Germany · 5 October 2006

  • Weimar in Exile: The Anti-Fascist Emigration in Europe and America by Jean-Michel Palmier, translated by David Fernbach

• Looking back at the rubble: War and the Built Environment · 25 May 2006

  • The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan

• Ruin and Redemption: psychoanalysing Zionism · 23 June 2005

  • The Question of Zion by Jacqueline Rose

• Are we there yet?: Abasing language, abusing prisoners · 17 February 2005

  • Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror by Mark Danner
  • The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib edited by Karen Greenberg and Joshua Dratel

• The Kid Who Talked Too Much and Became President: Clinton on Clinton · 23 September 2004

  • My Life by Bill Clinton

• The Mourning Paper: on war and showing pictures of the dead · 20 May 2004

• What kept Hector and Andromache warm in windy Troy?: ‘Vehement Passions’ · 19 June 2003

  • The Vehement Passions by Philip Fisher

• It’s not about cheering us up: Terry Eagleton · 3 April 2003

  • Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic by Terry Eagleton

• Naming the Dead: the politics of commemoration · 15 November 2001

• Touches of the Real: Stephen Greenblatt · 24 May 2001

  • Practising New Historicism by Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt

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