Praise

“Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction.”
—Terry Eagleton

“Exploding like so many magnesium flares in the night sky, Fredric Jameson’s writings have lit up the shrouded landscape of the postmodern.”
—Perry Anderson

“Jameson has long been the most alluring American literary theorist, the only one to match the French in style and depth.”
—Angela Woodward, Los Angeles Review of Books

“Not often in American writing since Henry James can there have been a mind displaying at once such tentativeness and force. The best of Jameson’s work has felt mind-blowing in the way of LSD or mushrooms.”
—Benjamin Kunkel, London Review of Books

“The most muscular of writers.”
—Times Literary Supplement

“Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today. It can truly be said that nothing cultural is alien to him.”
—Colin MacCabe

“Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think but almost no one does.”
—Michael Wood, London Review of Books

“Jameson’s latest book shows him at the height of his powers, carving out his novel alternative.”
—Robert T. Tally Jr, Jacobin

“Jameson’s Inventions of the Present is highly ambitious in scope both thematically and regionally…Inventions of a Present does not provide a departure from Jameson’s previous criticism but instead complements his older perspectives on First World/Third World literature and capitalism’s role in the marketplace of ideas and stories.”
—Ashley Yung, Oxford Political Review

“A timely collection of pieces about the historical novel and reading them brings home [Jameson’s] tremendous power of analysis.”
—The Prisma