Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His books include The Art of Listening (2007) and Live Methods, edited with Nirmal Puwar (2013).
Les Back
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Writing on Public Books
Street Corner Society
The world thinks it knows Manhattan. A thousand movie portrayals, among them Woody Allen’s classic Manhattan, and TV shows like Sex and the City have imprinted its iconic skyscrapers on our imaginations. Looking at Richard Howe’s extraordinary photographic portrait of the island, New York in Plain Sight, reveals that this assumed familiarity is a sign […]
