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Robert Gordon

Robert S. C. Gordon

Robert Gordon teaches at Cambridge University, where he is chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. icon

Fascism’s Cultural Behemoth

By Robert S. C. Gordon

Milan 1919: Fascism was founded as a movement almost exactly a century ago, by journalist and agitator Benito Mussolini along with a gaggle of World War I ...

Hard Labor: On the Complete Works of Primo Levi

By Robert S. C. Gordon

Turin, the provincial capital of Piedmont in northwestern Italy, sometime in the mid-1950s. In a comfortable apartment block on Corso Re Umberto, a 19th-century boulevard running southwest of the ...

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