...Fang Lizhi; Jeffrey M. Perl Dikötter Frank , Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 ( New York : Walker , 2010 ), 448 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Nina Pelikan Straus This interview with Joseph Frank — best known as the author of a five-volume biography of Dostoevsky (published 1976 – 2002) and of Spatial Form in Modern Literature (1945) — was conducted in 2012 at Stanford and is published here, shortly after his death at age ninety-four...

...Michael Fagenblat Maciejko Pawel , The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1916 . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2011 ), 376 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 LITTLE REVIEWS Olivier Roy, Holy Ignorance: When...

...David Cloutier Trentmann Frank , Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First ( New York : Harper , 2016 ), 862 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Joseph Frank In this memorial essay on Sir Frank Kermode (1919–2010), the author focuses on his own exchange of views with Kermode during the 1970s. In Kermode's book The Sense of an Ending (1966), he had criticized Frank's essay “Spatial Form in Modern Literature” (1945) as part of a larger...

...J. G. A. Pocock Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005), 232 pp. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005), 264 pp. Duke...

...Manfred Frank; Ruth Morris; Barry Allen; Jeffrey M. Perl Frank in this article treats the disagreement between François Lyotard and Jürgen Habermas over whether there are arguments that cannot be decided rationally. Lyotard identifies rational undecidability as the “postmodern condition.” Habermas...

...Glenn Holland Speaking freely is considered an essential component of academic freedom and freedom of inquiry. Unfortunately, historically as well as currently, the right to speak freely has often resulted in polemics and disputes between scholars. But the entire purpose of frankness in speech...

...Joseph Frank Duke University Press 2005 LITTLE REVIEWS Pascal Khoo Thwe, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 320 pp. This is a classic coming-of-age, my-life-as-parable...

...Joseph Frank Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 438 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy: History...

...Joseph Frank Bloshteyn Maria , The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon: Henry Miller's Dostoyevsky ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2007 ), 261 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Joseph Frank James P. Scanlan, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002), 251 pp. Duke University Press 2003 CK 9.2-12 Little Reviews 3/14/03 10:51 AM Page 341 LITTLE REVIEWS Susan...

...Joseph Frank Rob Riemen, Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal , trans. Marjolijn de Jager (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), 115 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints’ Stories and the Western Imagination...

...Joseph Frank; Jeffrey M. Perl Bloshteyn Maria , The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon: Henry Miller’s Dostoyevsky ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2007 ), 261 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...- The contributors to this symposium all spoke at a con- ference in 2009 that was organized by Philip Gossett and Roger Moseley. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (through Professor Gossett’s Distinguished Achievement Award) and the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago were...

...Joseph Frank Yves Bonnefoy, Shakespeare and the French Poet , ed. John Naughton (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 304 pp. © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Hauke Brunkhorst...

...Manfred Frank Duke University Press 2003 Translated by Ruth Morris and Barry Allen CK 9.1-09 Frank 10/31/02 10:36 AM Page 119 ARE THERE RATIONALLY UNDECIDABLE ARGUMENTS? Manfred Frank Translated by Ruth...

...Kwame Anthony Appiah; Joseph Frank; Stanley N. Katz; Jeffrey M. Perl At the founding editor’s invitation in 1991–92, the members of the editorial board and the department editors of Common Knowledge wrote individual and small-group calls for papers to be published in the inaugural issue of Spring...

...Joseph Frank Duke University Press 2004 LITTLE REVIEWS Hilary Putnam, The Collapse of the Fact-Value Distinction and Other Essays (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), 224 pp. Putnam is at his best when...