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James E. Young

James E. Young is Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of At Memory’s Edge and The Texture of Memory (both Yale University Press), among other works. In 2003, he was appointed to the competition jury for a National 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero, which selected “Reflecting Absence,” by Michael Arad and Peter Walker, dedicated and opened September 11, 2011. icon

Virtual Roundtable on Amy Waldman’sThe Submission

By James E. Young, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Nadia Abu El-Haj, & Bruce Robbins

Last fall Public Books sponsored a lively roundtable discussion of Amy Waldman’s widely praised novel The Submission (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), which considers what might have happened if the ...

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