Emily Apter is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University. Her book Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability is forthcoming from Verso in the spring of 2013. She is co-editing the English edition of the Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des intraduisibles (Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon) forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2014.
Emily Apter
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Writing on Public Books
Transatlantic Feminism Post–DSK Affair
Autumn 2012 in Paris, la rentrée, and a host of new books dealing with the aftershocks of summer 2011’s biggest political scandal are piled up on bookstore tables. A novel by Stéphane Zagdanski, Chaos brûlant (Burning Chaos), is particularly sensational, featuring the spectacular demise of former International Monetary Fund (IMF) director Dominique Strauss-Kahn as seen […]
