The American academia from which I recently retired is not an overwhelmingly authoritarian institution. Sure, the administration may police speech here and there. And certainly the system sorts people ...

Among the world’s leading academic critics, he brought his analytical rigor to topics as diverse as German opera and sci-fi movies. By Clay Risen Fredric Jameson, who held sway as one of the world’s ...

There are writers and critics, theorists and gurus. And then there is Fredric Jameson. Or there was. Because on September 22, at the age of 90, undimmed and over-productive as ever (three books in ...