{"product_id":"missing-time-essays-paperback","title":"Missing Time: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAri M. Brostoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOver the past few years, in essays published in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJewish Currents\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, Ari M. Brostoff has grappled with the intellectual upheavals and political contradictions that surfaced during the Trump era. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the breaking point of the 2016 election, Brostoff writes, \"the world came back into hideous focus\" and they began to feel, for the first time, \"like a long-term inhabitant of the present.\" \u003ci\u003eMissing Time\u003c\/i\u003e collects five remarkable essays and a new introduction that trace the return of the 20th century's political and cultural repressed in personal and collective terms. In prose that is simultaneously sharp and soulful, mournful and ecstatic, Brostoff offers lucid considerations of the reemergent millennial left, the enigmas of the\u003ci\u003e X-Files, \u003c\/i\u003e the complexities of Philip Roth's (anti-)Zionism, and other novelties, atavisms, and atavisms newly reborn as novelties. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the communist ardor of the Bronx circa 1940 to the '90s haze of the San Fernando Valley to a Brooklyn apartment building's tenants' association in the midst of a global pandemic, \u003ci\u003eMissing Time\u003c\/i\u003e collapses past and present into a revelatory encounter with very recent history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAri M. Brostoff is the culture editor at Jewish Currents. Their work has appeared in n+1, The Washington Post, The Nation, The New Republic, Post45, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 134\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.7 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 26, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50332155216109,"sku":"9781953813046","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/gTXhLk47J29781953813046.webp?v=1784962197","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/missing-time-essays-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}