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 ...
David J. Alworth
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. 