In the Chronicle Review, Mark Bauerlein writes about the issues involving literary scholarship and the hard road ahead for authors trying to be heard in a field awash with theses.… 6 / Read more »

Vladimir Sorokin, author of The Queue, Day of the Oprichnik, and The Ice Trilogy, is wrapping up month as writer-in-residence at Stanford University. Known as much for his shocking scenes… Read more »

Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, has written a delightful list of the great works of literature he has not read: I have never got through Henry Green’s Living or Concluding, though neither… 1 / Read more »

“Of all the murders committed in New York City in 1964 — 636, to be ­precise — only that of Catherine ­Susan Genovese launched a whole subfield of social science:… Read more »

David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, and one of Occupy Wall Street’s “main intellectual sources” according to the The Chronicle of Higher Education, debates debt, economics, and justice on MSNBC.  

A post on Wired.com points us to this amazing video of the University of Chicago’s new, state-of-the-art , fully automated, Joe and Rika Mansueto Library,”The building, a mammoth sunlit elliptical dome… 2 / Read more »

Bel Kaufman has turned 100 years old. Reasons to celebrate? She wrote one of the best books about teaching ever written, at least according to this former teacher: Up the… Read more »

In what’s sure to be a hugely contentious move, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner has been blocked from receiving an honorary degree from John Jay College by the trustees of… 2 / Read more »

College e-textbooks have long been seen as salvation by many textbook publishers. That hope may be misguided. According to a Seattle Times report , in a study conducted on computer… 2 / Read more »

A cache of newly rediscovered papers from Austrian-born British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein sheds new light on his thought. According to this report by the BBC: Professor Arthur Gibson, from the… Read more »