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Ivan Kreilkamp

Ivan Kreilkamp is Professor of English at Indiana University. He has published three books, Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge, 2005), Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel (Chicago, 2018), and A Visit From the Goon Squad Reread (Columbia, 2021), and has also published widely on arts, music, and literature in publications including Public Books, The New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker online, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Senses of Cinema, and elsewhere.

A collage featuring the cover of the Battle of Dorking
Arts & Culture

The Evolution of Britain’s Invasion Fiction

How fears of foreign plots and national decline moved from nineteenth-century novels into today's thrillers.
Up the Junction by Nell Dunn
Arts & Culture

Up the Junction: A Place, A Fiction, A Film, A Condition

In addition to a New Wave hit, Nell Dunn's 1963 book about young women in a poor London neighborhood inspired a Ken Loach adaption that helped shift British attitudes toward abortion.