American critic, essayist, and professor (born 1952)
Louis Menand
Born
(1952-01-21) January 21, 1952 (age 72)
Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Occupations
Critic
essayist
professor
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for History (2002)
National Humanities Medal (2015)
Academic background
Education
Pomona College (BA)
Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Academic work
Institutions
Harvard University
Notable works
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Website
louismenand.com
Louis Menand (/ˈluːiməˈnɑːnd/;[1] born January 21, 1952) is an American critic, essayist, and professor who wrote the Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.[2]
^"Big Think Interview With Louis Menand", bigthink.com, 26 April 2010.
^Alexis Tonti, and Louis Menand, “Louis Menand Reaches Critical Mass.” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art no. 48, 2011, pp. 72–85. online
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state than a byproduct of smoking too much weed". A review by academic LouisMenand in The New Yorker declared the novel "a generally lighthearted affair"...
existing dualism between traditional and the newer relational logics. LouisMenand argues in The Metaphysical Club that Jane Addams had been critical of...
explosion of a Titan II missile near Damascus, AR. The New Yorker's LouisMenand called it "excellent" and "hair-raising" and said that "Command and Control...
concept of the weapon are drawn from the text of On Thermonuclear War. LouisMenand observes, "In Kahn’s book, the Doomsday Machine is an example of the...
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tedious and increasingly irrelevant nature-nurture debate." Like Eriksen, LouisMenand, writing for The New Yorker, also claimed that Pinker's arguments constituted...
edited by Scott F. Parker, University Press of Mississippi, 2018, pp.149 LouisMenand, "Out of Bethlehem: The Radicalization of Joan Didion," The New Yorker...
all reviewers of the book mention the byzantine nature of the plot. LouisMenand in The New Yorker gives a simple description: "[T]his is the plot: An...
78 instead of a 45. LouisMenand in The New Republic described the sourcing of Goldman's book as "vague and unreliable". Menand wrote of Goldman's book...
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least 150 signatures from other demographers and social scientists. LouisMenand, writer at The New Yorker, stated that "there is no empirical basis"...
arouses Bigger, but these lines were removed from the final version. LouisMenand wrote in The New Yorker that in the final version, as a result of the...
into a lively group informally known as The Metaphysical Club in 1872. LouisMenand (2001) suggested that this Club provided a foundation for American intellectual...
thus differentiating the novel from young adult fiction. In contrast, LouisMenand thought that teachers assign the novel because of the optimistic ending...
many people argue that creative writing cannot be taught. Essayist LouisMenand explores the issue in an article for the New Yorker in which he quotes...
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