
On Monuments and Malls
By David Kaufmann
David Kaufmann is the author of two books - The Business of Common Life (1995) and Telling Stories: Philip Guston’s Later Works (2010) — as well a number of articles on literature and philosophy. He has also published close to a century of reviews and a handful of poems. He has just completed a manuscript, Other People’s Words: Subjectivity and Expression in Uncreative Writing. He teaches at George Mason University and lives on a cul-de-sac in the Maryland suburbs.