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Bruce Robbins

Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His latest book, Atrocity: A Literary History, was published in February 2025. He is also the author of Who’s Allowed to Protest?, forthcoming from Melville House.

Eleven people stare off into the distance, away from the viewer. They are standing in a museum, two of them at the top of ladders. They seem to be staring at an abstract image of a mountain range.

Museum of Difference

September 7, 2020
In the last two years of his life Karl Marx took over a thousand pages of notes concerning world history. In ill health, unable to finish the promised third volume of Capital, and (according to the recent Gareth Stedman Jones biography) unpleasantly aware that he still had not ...