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‘The NYC novelist understands—she’d better understand, or else she’ll have to move to Cleveland’

‘Back to School’ by Kate Beaton

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‘Back to School’ by Kate Beaton

“Desprit to pass spring projict”

Changing Education Paradigms

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Changing Education Paradigms

‘Outside Looking In’ by Gary Wills

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‘Outside Looking In’ by Gary Wills

Nussbaum’s Manifesto

Nussbaum’s Manifesto

There are MFA programs and then there are MFA programs…

Good for business, not so much for scholarship

‘Of course, there are few things more politically dangerous within an English Department than teaching something popular with students’

‘Of course, there are few things more politically dangerous within an English Department than teaching something popular with students’

Podcast:

The University in Cyberspace

Gibberish of the Essay Mills

Gibberish of the Essay Mills

Elif Batuman: Down with Creative Writing

Colleges as engines of inequality

R. Buckminster Fuller, Robert Lowell, Bonnie Raitt, Bill Gates and Matt Damon have all done pretty, pretty good. But what about the Harvard dropouts who didn’t become famous?

An empire of plagiarism

What links acquiring editors at large publishing houses and investment bankers? An attention to the mentality of the mob

Male studies arrives

‘When the Wagner family first saw the picture, their reaction was rather different. “We probably laughed,” Penelope told me…’

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Taylor Mali on What Teachers Make

‘Our growing preference for the legerdemain of knowledge work over “real” work might help us understand what is amiss in the culture.’