Critical Inquiry

Our Current Issue

Our Spring 2013 issue features David Rodowick, Russ Castronovo, Mark McGurl and Wai Chee Dimock, and more…
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Forthcoming:

Haun Saussy on Arendt and Alexandria, Marjorie Garber on Ovid and narrative, Lisa Wedeen on Syria, and more…
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In the Moment: The CI Blog

In the Moment: The CI Blog features theoretically sophisticated interventions in current politics, art, and scholarship by CI’s board members and contributors
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From Our Current Issue

Russ Castronovo on Ben Franklin and Wikileaks, media, networks and revolution—free online, the way information wants to be…
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Web Exclusive: Pussy Riot

Forthcoming in print: Anya Bernstein on body politics, sovereign power and Pussy Riot
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Debate: Deep Time and the Transnational

From our current issue: Mark McGurl and Wai Chee Dimock debate time and scale in literary history.
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Critical Inquiry Books

Books from Critical Inquiry range from perennial favorites like On Metaphor, On Narrative, and “Race,” Writing, and Difference to Saints (2011) and the forthcoming Signature Derrida
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Forthcoming in 2013: Signature Derrida

Edited by Jay Williams with an Introduction by Françoise Meltzer, a wide-ranging anthology of Derrida's writings in CI
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