Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory Poetry_Gift_Guide “A captivating and crackling noir

“A captivating and crackling noir full of suspenseful twists

The Reformatory is a "hallucinatory

As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol

in Breton's words

Soon she’s part of a quartet of magic students

Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory Poetry_Gift_Guide “A captivating and crackling noirThe untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth century intellectual history A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 Selection Well writtenand well translated.Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European intellectuals in search of places as yet untouched by modernity. Among the revolutionaries, artists, and thinkers drawn to Naples were numerous scholars