Portrait of George Scialabba

George Scialabba

George Scialabba, a contributing editor of AGNI, is the author of six essay collections: Slouching toward Utopia (2018), Low Dishonest Decades: Essays and Reviews 2980–2015 (2016), For the Republic (2013), The Modern Predicament (2011), and What Are Intellectuals Good For? (2009), all from Pressed Wafer, and The Divided Mind (2006) from Arrowsmith Press. James Wood chose The Modern Predicament for The New Yorker’s roundup of the best books of the year. Scialabba is also a past winner of the Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing award from the National Book Critics Circle. His work is archived at georgescialabba.net. (updated 10/2018)

Scialabba’s What Are Intellectuals Good For? was reviewed in AGNI Online by Mark Oppenheimer.

AGNI has published the following work:

Wistful Thinking about the Political Weeklies

Essay by George Scialabba

The Sealed Envelope

Essay by George Scialabba

Critical Imperialism

Review by George Scialabba

“No, in thunder!”: Christopher Lasch and the Spirit of the Age

Review by George Scialabba

Inside the Cave

Essay by George Scialabba

Demos and Sophia: Not a Love Story

Essay by George Scialabba

An Honest Believer

Essay by George Scialabba
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