Jacob Soule recently completed his PhD in the Program in Literature at Duke University, and has worked as an editorial intern at Failed Architecture. He is currently at work on a monograph titled The City Novel After the City: Planetary Metropolis, World Literature. He has an article on the historical novel forthcoming in the next issue of Contemporary Literature, and has previously written for Polygraph, Keywords: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, Jacobin, The New Socialist, and the Verso Books Blog.