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Len Gutkin

Senior Editor, The Chronicle Review
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Len Gutkin is a senior editor at The Chronicle Review and the author of Dandyism: Forming Fiction From Modernism to the Present (Virginia). Follow him at @GutkinLen.

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The Review | Essay
Curricular Trauma, Vaporous Politics, and Field Death
By Len Gutkin July 12, 2024
When books become venomous, the humanities suffer.
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