Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights, by Lyndsey Stonebridge Bryan Cheyette praises an ambitious account of the place of literature in addressing today’s fundamental issues of persecution and injustice By Bryan Cheyette 14 January
Gulag Literature and the Literature of?Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading, by Leona Toker Bryan Cheyette welcomes a comparative study of those persecuted under Stalin and Hitler despite its gaps By Bryan Cheyette 5 March
The New Slave Narrative: The Battle over Representations of Contemporary Slavery, by Laura T. Murphy Bryan Cheyette considers an intriguing account of the stories we tell ourselves about slavery By Bryan Cheyette 5 December
A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America, by Lance Freeman Bryan Cheyette is intrigued by an account that accentuates the positive as well as the negative aspects of ghetto life By Bryan Cheyette 18 July
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss Book of the week: Bryan Cheyette straddles truth and fiction in observer accounts of anti-Semitic persecution By Bryan Cheyette 24 August