Peter L'Official

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The European Review of Books is a magazine of culture and ideas, in print and online, in English and in a writer’s own tongue.

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Peter L'Official

English

Peter L’Official is an Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the American and Indigenous Studies Program at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. He is the author of Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin (Harvard University Press, 2020).

1 contribution

Ballad of a Homburg hat

Peter L'Official

On racial metonymy and the art of misidentification. (Meanwhile: has a glass of beer ever been more crisply and deliciously depicted? Has the froth of a European pilsner ever looked so delectable?)

1 issue

Issue One

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