Transatlantic aliens : modernism, exile, and culture in midcentury America / by Norman, Will, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…James and Theodor Adorno -- The yankee from Berlin: George Grosz -- The big empty: Raymond Chandler's transatlantic modernism -- The taste of freedom: Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov and the intellectual road trip -- Saul Steinberg's vanishing trick: modernism, the state, and the cosmopolitan intellectual -- Conclusion: not to grin is a sin.…”

Transatlantic aliens : modernism, exile, and culture in midcentury America / by Norman, Will, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…James and Theodor Adorno -- The yankee from Berlin: George Grosz -- The big empty: Raymond Chandler's transatlantic modernism -- The taste of freedom: Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov and the intellectual road trip -- Saul Steinberg's vanishing trick: modernism, the state, and the cosmopolitan intellectual -- Conclusion: not to grin is a sin.…”
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The American idea : the best of the Atlantic monthly : 150 years of writers and thinkers who shaped our history /

Table of Contents: “…Smith (1927) -- Fifty grand / fiction by Ernest Hemingway (1927) -- Cloud, castle, lake / fiction by Vladimir Nabokov (1941) -- As we may think / Vannevar Bush (1945) -- The captivity of marriage / Nora Johnson (1961) -- The education of David Stockman / William Greider (1981) -- Broken windows / James Q. …”