Robert Gordon teaches at Cambridge University, where he is chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.
Robert S. C. Gordon
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Fascism’s Cultural Behemoth
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
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 city’s elegant central squares and their pre-Alpine backdrop, two men, one in his late 30s, the other barely into his 20s, meet twice weekly to work […]
