Are “the standard modes of realist narrative storytelling about the momentous
present as it unfolds not enough for historians, journalists . . . or
philosophers”? Read Cultural Producers in Perilous States (University of Chicago
Press, £18.75/$23.50, ISBN 0 226 50440 9)—if only for the
first and last interviews—and ponder post-postmodern reportage.
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