Cynthia L. Haven writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and has contributed to publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Nation, the Wall Street Journa...mehr sehenCynthia L. Haven writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and has contributed to publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Nation, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and World Literature Today. She edited Czesław Miłosz: Conversations and An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz. She is also the author of Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford’s Division of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. In 2018 she was named a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, an award conferred for the purpose of researching and writing this book. Follow her on Twitter @chaven.weniger sehen