Review : Lost in the post

Are “the standard modes of realist narrative storytelling about the momentous
present as it unfolds not enough for historians, journalists . . . or
philosophers”? Read Cultural Producers in Perilous States (University of Chicago
Press, £18.75/$23.50, ISBN 0 226 50440 9)—if only for the
first and last interviews—and ponder post-postmodern reportage.