The Politics and Literature of Unknowingness: Philip Roth’s Our Gang and The Plot Against America
“A novel,” observed Milan Kundera in an 1980 interview with Philip Roth, “does not assert anything; a novel searches and poses questions . . . I don’t…
Simon Stow
Simon Stow is an Associate Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Republic of Readers? The Literary Turn in Political Thought and Analysis (SUNY, 2007) and American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience (Cambridge, 2017); and co-editor, with Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, of A Political Companion to John Steinbeck (Kentucky, 2013).