Timothy Brennan has published essays on literature, cultural politics, intellectuals, and imperial culture in the Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, New Left Review, Critical Inquiry, the London Review of Books, and elsewhere. He teaches humanities at the University of Minnesota and is the author most recently of Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said.
In Western Marxism, Domenico Losurdo takes 20th-century European and American Marxists to task for unfairly dismissing anti-colonial socialist movements. But his broad-brush condemnation fails to do justice to the rich and varied intellectual tradition he attacks.