Lawrence Douglas is the author of “The Catastrophist” (Other Press), a novel which earned raves from the New York Times, Village Voice, and Entertainment Weekly, and was praised by Kirkus as “very nearly an American ‘Lucky Jim.’”
He is a professor of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College. Douglas’ other books include The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust” (Yale University Press, 2001), a widely acclaimed study of war crimes trials; and with Alexander George, “Sense and Nonsensibility” (Simon and Schuster, 2004), a parodic look at contemporary culture.
His articles have been published in The Yale Law Journal, Representations, The Washington Post and The Times Literary Supplement. His fiction and humor have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and Tikkun.
