David J. Alworth is Assistant Professor of English and of History and Literature at Harvard University, where he teaches modern and contemporary American literature. His first book, Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
David J. Alworth
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The Look of the Book
John Hersey’s Hiroshima takes place, as one might expect, in Hiroshima. Originally published in the August 31, 1946, issue of the New Yorker, it recounts what the magazine’s editors called, in a statement to readers of the issue, “the almost complete obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb.” Within a few months it was […]
