For a long time, the queer voice has been an outsider’s voice, both outraged and outrageous, in literature and the arts, including film. In the work of artists like Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, the repression of homosexuality–and sexuality in general–was symbolic of the many lies and hypocricy that society […]

Levy: Library of Books–Bios, Memoirs, Actors, Directors, Critics

Christopher Lasch’s most famous work, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (1979), sought to relate the hegemony of modern-day capitalism to an encroachment of a “therapeutic” mindset into social and family life.

Updated March 9, 2020 Socio-economics of the arts and literature, or cultural economics, is a field that studies the economics of creation, distribution, and the consumption of works of art, literature and similar creative and cultural products. For a long time, the concept of the “arts” were confined to visual arts (e.g., painting) and performing […]

Sociologist Robert Nisbet’s first important work, The Quest for Community (1953, 1969), claimed that modern social science’s individualism denied an important human drive toward community as it left people without the aid of their fellows to combat the centralizing power of the nation-state.