Jules Law

Jules Law is Professor of English Literature at Northwestern University. He has written widely on Victorian literature, James Joyce, and literary theory. He is the recipient of numerous teaching and community service awards, including the Centro Romero Community Leadership Award.

Writing on Public Books

Reviews

Collateral Melancholy

Two children meet by chance on the night of a historic Santiago earthquake, develop a brief, tentative friendship around a secret task that neither of them understands too well, and then, years later, meet up as adults, both attracted and estranged by the silences and intersecting threads that had earlier entangled them. Alejandro Zambra’s third […]