...Wayne Koestenbaum; Simon Porzak Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 “Opera Is a Closed Book” A Conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum wayne koestenbaum and simon porzak The following pages present fragments of a written correspondence be- tween Qui Parle and the poet, thinker...

...Geoffrey Galt Harpham Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 Why We Need the 16,772nd Book on Shakespeare geoffrey galt harpham Higher education is affl icted by so many threats that it might seem pointless to try to improve the situation by removing just one. But the one I have...

...Lionel Ruffel Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 Do Books Have a Place in a Shanghai World? lionel ruffel Translated by Simon Porzak For those who haven’t yet noticed, there’s a tune everyone’s whis- tling nowadays, and it’s the tune of rankings and evaluations. We’re...

... Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Books Received Becker, Daniel Levin. Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Lit- erature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Blatt, Ari J. Pictures into Words: Images in Contemporary French Fic- tion. Lincoln: University...

... Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Books Received Badiou, Alain. The Incident at Antioch/L’Incident d’Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts/Tragédie en trois actes. Trans. Susan Spitzer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Plato’s Republic: A Dialogue in 16 Chapters...

... Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Books Received Althusser, Louis. On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. New York: Verso, 2014. Armstrong, Paul B. How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuro- science of Reading and Art. Baltimore...

... Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Books Received Agamben, Giorgio. Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty. Trans. Adam Kotsko. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. Altieri, Charles. Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity. Cor- nell: Cornell University Press, 2013...

... Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Books Received Albright, Daniel. Putting Modernism Together. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Balibar, Étienne. Citizenship. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015. Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy. New York...

... Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Books Received Apter, Emily. Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability. New York: Verso Books, 2013. Atanasoski, Neda. Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...

... Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 Books Received Azmanova, Albena, and Mihaela Mihai, eds. Reclaiming Democracy: Judgment, Responsibility, and the Right to Politics. New York: Routledge, 2015. de Vries, Hent, and Nils F. Schott, eds. Love and Forgiveness for a More Just...

... Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 Books Received Benjamin, Roger, and Cristina Ashjian. Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. Cassin, Barbara. Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? Translated by Pascale- Anne Brault. New York...

... Press , 2016 . Rubery Matthew . The Untold Story of the Talking Book . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 . Um Khatharya . From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora . New York : New York University Press , 2015...

...: Writing and Democratic Socialism . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Yountae An . The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins . New York : Fordham University Press , 2016 . Books Received Abensour, Miguel. Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin...

... . Waldinger Roger David . The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their Homelands . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018 Books Received Allen, William S. Without End: Sade s Critique of Reason. New York: Bloomsbury...

... by Epstein Mark William . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2017 . Wolfson Elliot R. The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 . Books Received Arsenjuk, Luka. Mouvement, Action, Image...

... . Heidegger: Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2018 . Vareschi Mark . Everywhere and Nowhere: Anonymity and Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2018 . Books Received Agamben, Giorgio. What...

... Press , 2018 . Young Damon . Making Sex Public and Other Cinema Fantasies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . Books Received Badiou, Alain. Mallebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2, translated by Jason E. Smith and Susan Spitzer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019...

... Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Books Received Aciman, André. Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Aloni, Udi, with Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler. What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters. New York...

... Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 BOOKS RECEIVED Bruce Ackerman, The Stakeholder Society (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000). Alan L. Ackerman Jr., The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...

... BOOKS RECEIVED John Ashbery, Other Traditions (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univer- sity Press, 2001). Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2001). Zack Bowen & David L. Wilson, Science and Literature: Bridging the Two Cultures...