News & Notes

SEPTEMBER 2019

BOOK SALE -- September 25

Jackson Lears and the editors of Raritan: A Quarterly Review invite 
you to a book sale at their offices at 31 Mine Street on the College 
Avenue campus.

Browse among new and used works of literature, literary criticism, 
cultural history, biography, philosophy, fiction, poetry, art, and 
politics, along with back issues of Raritan and other literary and 
scholarly journals.

Low prices are guaranteed, and light refreshments will be served. 

We hope you will join us.

Date: Wednesday, September 25 (Rain Date: September 26)
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Place: 31 Mine Street (between College and Easton Avenues)

Questions? Call 848-932-7887

APRIL 2019

Journalism in an Age of Cynicism and Polarization: Case Studies from America and Russia
Presented by Raritan and the Center for Cultural Analysis

Featuring New York Times national correspondent Sabrina Tavernise

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 @ 5:00 p.m.
Van Dyck Hall, Room 301
16 Seminary Place
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, NJ

Reception to follow

NOVEMBER 2018

The Uses of Fear: American-Russian Relations in Historical Perspective
A roundtable discussion presented by Raritan and the Center for Cultural Analysis

Panelists:

Jackson Lears, Editor in Chief, Raritan Quarterly
Patrick Lawrence, foreign correspondent and columnist
Jochen Hellbeck, Rutgers Distinguished Professor of History
David Foglesong, Rutgers Professor of History

Thursday, November 15 @ 4:30 PM
Van Dyck Hall, Room 301
16 Seminary Place
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, NJ

Reception to follow



May 2018

Edward Tenner & Richard K. Rein in Conversation
The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do
Thursday, May 10 @ 6:00 PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08542

Full event details (external link)


BOOK SALE -- May 2

Jackson Lears and the editors of Raritan: A Quarterly Review invite 
you to a book sale at their offices at 31 Mine Street on the College 
Avenue campus.

Browse among new and used works of literature, literary criticism, 
cultural history, biography, philosophy, fiction, poetry, art, and 
politics, along with back issues of /Raritan/ and other literary and 
scholarly journals.

Low prices are guaranteed, and light refreshments will be served. 

We hope you will join us.

Date: May 2 (Wednesday)
Time: 11:00 to 4:00 
Place: 31 Mine Street (between College and Easton Avenues)

Questions? Call 848-932-7887

February 2017

Farewell to Dore Ashton, one of our favorite contributors and a grande dame of art criticism. [New York Times]

Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra has just been published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. You can read Mishra's "The Entrapments of Top-Down Modernity" in our Fall 2016 issue (print only).

APRIL 2016

With great pleasure, the editors offer congratulations to…

  • MARSHA POMERANTZ, whose “Right/Left: A Triptych,” from our Summer 2015 issue, was selected for inclusion in the Best American Essays 2016.
  • LINDA GREGERSON, whose poem “Font,” from our Summer 2015 issue, will appear in Best American Poetry 2016.
  • TOM SLEIGH, whose poem “Prayer for Recovery,” from our Spring 2015 issue, was also selected for Best American Poetry 2016.
  • VICTORIA NELSON and NICK BROMELL, recipients of 2016 Guggenheim Fellowships. Nelson’s latest piece in Raritan, “Walter Benjamin and the Two Angels,” appeared in the Winter 2016 issue, and Bromell last appeared in our Summer 2015 issue with “Dignity: A Word for Democracy.”

JULY 2015

Farewell to SEBASTIANO VASSALLI  (1941-2015), one of Italy's literary greats and an intellectual in the largest sense. It was an honor to have his words (vividly translated by GREGORY CONTI) grace our pages. We are particularly proud to have featured several chapters from Vassalli's "Amore Lontano" (Faraway Love), an eclectic work of literary appreciation and interpretation by someone who considered himself an "extremist of poetry." Vassalli, known primarily as a novelist, was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature in May 2015 and was to receive a Campiello Prize for lifetime achievement in September 2015.

OCTOBER 2014

The editors extend a warm welcome to Michael Van Unen, Raritan's new Office Manager. 

SEPTEMBER 2014

It is with sadness that we note the passing of two great men of letters:

KARL MILLER, founder of the London Review of Books and a long-time friend of Raritan and its editors, first appeared in the magazine in the Spring 1995 issue. His wit and insight enlivened his essays and reviews and will be sorely missed.

P. N. FURBANK first appeared in Raritan in the Summer 1991 issue, writing on Diderot. Since then, his work has graced our pages with essays on the historical novel, determinism, Robert Musil, and film.

AUGUST 2014

We bid a fond farewell to DONNA K. GREEN, who has served as Raritan's administrative assistant since the fall of 1985. We will miss her cheerful presence (that silvery laugh!) and her efficient management of the office. We wish her all the best in her retirement.

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...Call it Capital, call it Modernity Post Hoc—
the hours have passed through the hourglass
and back into the sea...

-- Samantha Grenrock
(Winter 2017)

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