American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment, edited by Steven Belleto and Daniel Grausam, will be available Oct. 1 from the University of Iowa Press.

A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that American cultural production from the late 1940s to the present might be understood in relation to the Cold War.

Samuel Cohen, the author of After the End of History, commented, “A watershed moment in the current revitalization of Cold War studies. The editors have brought together a strong group of cultural critics to revise and extend the insights of the foundational ‘containment culture’ work of Thomas Schaub, Alan Nadel, and Ellen Schrecker.

“From its re-readings of figures we thought we knew, to its reconsiderations of concepts we thought we’d mastered, to Nadel’s own re-visitation and extension of his work, this book will help those of us in English, American studies, cultural studies, history, and sociology who thought we knew the Cold War to think again.”

An assistant professor of English and chair of the American Studies program at Lafayette College, Belletto is the author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives, and he has published essays on postwar literature and culture in journals including ELH, American Quarterly, Clio, Criticism, and Genre. He is an associate editor of the journal Contemporary Literature.

Grausam is the author of On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War, and he is currently completing Half Lives: The Legacies of the First Nuclear Age, an interdisciplinary study of post–Cold War American nuclear culture.

The book will be available at bookstores or from the UI Press, 800-621-2736 or www.uiowapress.org. Customers in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa may order from Eurospan Group at www.eurospanbookstore.com.