“‘Them’ remakes the naturalist tradition of novels for a society that seems … incapable of ending an addiction to racist violence.”

Harilaos Stecopoulos
Harilaos Stecopoulos is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. His most recent book, Telling America’s Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy, appeared from Oxford UP in 2023. He is currently working on a new project, “The Heat of Modernity: American Modernism and the Energy Economy.”