The Irresistible Charm of Radicalism: [rev. Nancy Sinkoff, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History, Wayne State University Press, 2020, 538 pp. ]

Jacek Partyka is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok, Poland, where he teaches courses in the history of American literature, intertextuality and comparative studies. His research interests center on American late modernist and postmodernist poetry (Louis Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, Susan Howe), literary representations of genocide (Edward Lewis Wallant, Cynthia Ozick), W.H. Auden’s reinvention of himself as a new poet in the US, and the literature of the Jewish diaspora in New York City.