Robert T. Tally Jr is a professor of English at Texas State University. His recent books include The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse, The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies, and For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism.
Throughout his career, the critic Fredric Jameson has pitted himself against reductive Marxist approaches to culture and a close reading tradition blind to politics. His latest book shows him at the height of his powers, carving out his novel alternative.