Marianna Torgovnick

Journal article New American Studies Journal · December 22, 2022 This essay counterpoints two existential threats in our lifetimes—nuclear apocalypse and climate catastrophe—comparing how they have been recorded in historical documents and how they have registered in the American imagination. It surveys non-fict ... Full text Cite

Recipe for Memory

Journal article Los Angeles Review of Books · September 14, 2021 Cite

The Allure of Lost Cities

Journal article Los Angeles Review of Books · July 1, 2020 Cite

Representing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Contemporary America

Journal article Nanzan Review of American Studies · 2011 Cite

Rereading The Iliad in a time of war

Journal article Pmla · October 1, 2009 Full text Cite

The Buoyancy of Depression Entertainment

Journal article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · April 2009 Cite

It’s Not Mickey Mouse: Animation Today

Journal article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · 2009 Cite

Letting Loose in the Great Depression: Film, Radio, and Leisure Time in the 1930s

Journal article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · 2009 Cite

Archive Fever

Journal article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · September 2008 Cite

The Lure of Urban Destruction: Targeting New York

Journal article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · May 2008 Cite

Sexy Things: Recent Novels that Embroider Artistic History

Journal article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · February 2008 Cite

Writing Together

Journal article Modernist Group Dynamics · 2008 Cite

On Victor Li’s "The Neo-Primitivist Turn"

Journal article Criticism · 2007 Cite

The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity

Journal article CRITICISM-A QUARTERLY FOR LITERATURE AND THE ARTS · 2007 Link to item Cite

Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

Journal article American Literature · September 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Review, Michel North, Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

Journal article American Literature · 2006 Cite

Animals and Aura

Journal article · 2005 Cite

My Secret Life with Earrings

Journal article · 2004 Cite

Interview with Duke Writing Group

Journal article · 2003 Cite

A Response to Shosana Felman’s ’Theatres of Justice’

Journal article Critical Inquiry · 2002 Cite

A response to Shoshana Felman

Journal article Critical Inquiry · January 1, 2002 Full text Cite

Memoir, Autobiography, and Diaries

Journal article Encyclopedia of American Studies · 2001 Cite

On Michael North’s "Reading 1922"

Journal article American Literature · 2001 Cite

Mixed Ethnicity: Crossing Ocean Parkway Revisited

Journal article Diaspora and Immigration SAQ · 1999 Cite

On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst

Journal article Partisan Review · 1997 Cite

A Writer and Others

Journal article Essays in Criticism · 1997 Cite

A Passion for the Primitive: Dian Fossey Among the Animals

Journal article Yale Review · 1996 Cite

Interdisciplinarity

Journal article PMLA · 1996 Cite

Tracking the men's movement

Journal article American Literary History · March 1, 1994 A group of men sit around a fire. In the trees that surround them hang African masks used in initiation. Before the fire, moving around the circle as he speaks, is an older man who tells what it is like to be a man. He especially tells of his relationship ... Full text Cite