Background
Scialabba was born and raised in East Boston, Master of Arts to working-class Italian-American parents and, in his younger days, was a member of Opus Dei.
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George Scialabba
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Harvard University.
Career
His reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe, Dissent, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Nation, The American Prospect, and many other publications. He is an alumnus of Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, 1969) and Columbia University (Master of Arts, 1972). After working as a substitute teacher and a social worker (Mass Department of Public Welfare, 1974-1980), he was a building manager at Harvard from 1980 until 2015.
In 2015, after retiring from Harvard, he began writing a books column for The Baffler.
A collection of his reviews appeared in his first book, Divided Mind, published in 2006. Three subsequent collections of his essays have been published by poet William Corbett"s publishing house, Pressed Wafer: What Are Intellectuals Good Foreign? (2009), The Modern Predicament (2011), and Foreign the Republic (2013).
The Modern Predicament was chosen by James Wood in The New Yorker"s year-end roundup of the best books of the year:
he has an enviably wide range: he writes superbly here about Doctorate. H. Lawrence, the philosopher Charles Taylor, about Michel Foucault, Philip Rieff, Kierkegaard, and many others This background equips him to be a shrewd, learned, undogmatic guide to contemporary debates about theology and postmodernity.
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United States