DAVID MARCUS
David is the Literary Editor of The Nation. He has contributed essays on politics, history, and literature to, among other places, The New Republic, n+1, Bookforum, and Dissent. He holds a PhD in history from Columbia University and is at work on a forthcoming book on the history of American socialism.
Previously co-editor of Dissent, he held a Richard Hofstadter Fellowship while at Columbia and taught in the college's Contemporary Civilization program. He grew up in Minneapolis and currently lives in New York.
JOURNALISM AND ESSAYS
"Age of Hobsbawm: Eric Hobsbawm’s Twentieth Century," The Nation
"In Praise of Amateur Politics: Protest Movements and the American Left," Dissent
"Always Come Late! The Radical Life and Times of Irving Howe," The New Republic
"A Politics of Ambition: On 2016 and the Fight for $15," Dissent
"La gauche Americaine peut l'emporter en exigeant l'impossible," Le Monde
"Permanent Emergency: National Security and the Democratic Process," Dissent
"Men in Space: Tom McCarthy and the Novel of Disenchantment," The New Republic
"The Power Historian: Arthur Schlesinger’s Vital Center," The Nation
"Dangling Man: Joseph O'Neill and the Cosmopolitan Novel," Bookforum
"Marxism with Soul: The Cultural Criticism of Marshall Berman," The Nation
"The Next Majority: Prospects of the Sanders Campaign," Dissent
"The Horizontalists: Intellectual and Political Origins of Occupy Wall Street," Dissent
"Finding a Way Back Home: The Many Philip Roths," The Nation
"Worlds in Waiting: The Promise of Little Magazines," Dissent
"The Ambivalence Artist: The Reluctant Anarchism of J.M. Coetzee," Dissent
"Meme si Bernie Sanders perdait, un changement radical est en marche," Le Monde
"Citizen Politics: The Left and the New Protest Movements," Dissent
"A Washington, une bombe ennemie des libertes," Le Monde
"The Soapbox Left: City Politics and the Left," Dissent
"What Happened to the Political Novel?," Dissent
"On the Life and Times of Marshall Berman," n+1
"Zadie Smith and the Austerity Novel," Dissent
"Optimism of Intellect: Little Magazines and the Left," Krytyka Polityczna
"Memory as Homeland: George Konrad and the Question of Antipolitics," Dissent