By JESSE A. GOLDBERG

Review of History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing, by Jeffrey Insko.

By JONATHAN FREEDMAN

Review of DISTANT READING, by Franco Moretti and BETWEEN CANON AND CORPUS: Six Perspectives on 20th-Century Novels by Mark Algee-Hewitt and Mark McGurl

By STEVEN WILF

Review of Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy, by Benjamin Balint

By BLAKEY VERMEULE

Review of ALGERIAN CHRONICLES, by Albert Camus; edited by Alice Kaplan and translated by Arthur Goldhammer