The Master and Margarita Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2012) Brantlinger considers the many versions

Brantlinger considers the many versions of negative classicism and shows how the belief in the historical inevitability of social decay—a belief today perpetuated by the mass media themselves—has become the dominant view of mass culture in our time

How did his body get from the school to the distant churchyard

from common misbehaviors to substance abuse and antisocial behavior

He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families

becoming a parent

The Master and Margarita Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2012) Brantlinger considers the many versionsSuppressed in the Soviet Union for twenty six years. Surely, no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and