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Louis Menand

Louis Menand, professor of English at Harvard University, is the author of The Metaphysical Club, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in History. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Books by Louis Menand

  1. Book CoverCivilization and Its Discontents

    The Standard Edition

    For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of the seminal work with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand.More

  2. Book CoverThe Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University


    "Crisp and illuminating . . . well worth reading."—Wall Street Journal More