One doesn't endorse one's self, but I can say that Tally's thorough and insightful review of my work will make it possible for readers to connect up parts they may have missed and to grasp the coherence of a long list of books and essays which might at first seem to wander across a variety of very different topics and interests. I'm most grateful to have available such a useful introduction to that work. (Fredric Jameson)Robert Tally offers us an engaging, intimate, and elegant portrait of Fredric Jameson. Tally’s fine reconstruction of Jameson’s wide-ranging and often intimidating work offers a portrait of Jameson as a thinker who argues that we must interpret the world in order to change it. (Benjamin Noys, author of The Persistence of the Negative)