Gaudeamus igitur, Amazon’s going to college
Liam O'Brien
When I was a college student, I thought as a college student. I spake as a college student, using the term “Derridean” and “albeit” like they were my sponsors. I… Read more »
When I was a college student, I thought as a college student. I spake as a college student, using the term “Derridean” and “albeit” like they were my sponsors. I… Read more »
France has long been the nation to whom we callow Americans look for probity in intellectual matters and laxity in sexual ones. Their presidents always have at least one current… Read more »
There was one happy moment of bipartisan achievement this fall, before the Republicans swept the Senate: on September 26th, a bill co-written by Assemblyman Brian Nestande (R–Palm Desert) and Assemblyman… Read more »
This week is the eighth annual Open Access Week, and that means confetti! No, actually, it means something much better than that: a week of discussions about the great and… Read more »
Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky is teaching an eight-week MOOC (massive open online course) through Boston University and EdX this fall, and more than twelve thousand students have… Read more »
The publishing industry was yesterday coming to terms with a fact many of us have known to be true for quite some time now: there are a hell of a… Read more »
A radical British publisher is enforcing their copyright over the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The internet commentariat, predictably, finds this unjust and ironic. It’s neither. Sorry, internet, but… Read more »
Picture a few professors flexing their muscles, doing some sick karate moves, like video game characters getting ready for a fight. Now imagine the paper they’ve written together revealing some… Read more »
Here’s a new way to fight a book ban: bringing award-winning musical theater to your college campus. Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home—a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist that… Read more »
Yesterday Bloomsbury Children’s Books, one of the leading publishers of children’s fiction (whose authors include JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman and Benjamin Zephaniah), announced a new global strand of publishing: clean… Read more »