Recent Articles from The Review
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Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred
A writer contemplates religion, science, art, and the miraculous.
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What's So Funny About 9/11?
A new book sizes up our capacity to face horror with a grim chuckle.
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What's Been Lost in History
By focusing narrowly on educating more professors, the field has relinquished its influence on civic life.
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In Praise of Reference-Book Authors
A tribute to lexicographers and others who classify life's minutiae.
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The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia
The author has written two books about the Haymarket riot and trial. In some circles that affords a presumption of expertise. Not, however, on Wikipedia.
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Nota Bene: Death by Rose Petals
Meet the naughtiest Roman emperor you've never heard of.
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New Scholarly Books
Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category.
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Monday's Poem: 'The Date,' by Monica Ferrell
A different kind of Valentine. With notes from poetry blogger Lisa Russ Spaar.
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Tools for Living
Increasingly, students see the value in not just a sophisticated understanding of the world's problems but also the practical know-how to find sustainable solutions.
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Academic Abroad: A Cautionary Tale
A traveling scholar displays his, um, sophistication.
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Teaching News Literacy in the Digital Age
If the Facebook and Twitter era has made everyone a journalist, let's make everyone a better journalist.
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Theory and the Novel
Do novelists really want to "rework" poststructuralist theory? Or do they just want to tell excellent stories?
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Just Doing It
The inestimable value of being in the moment, whether in upward dog or in the classroom.
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Little Boy Blue—and Little Girls, Too?
Parents haven't always color-coded their offspring by gender, according to a new book on the history of children's clothing.
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Cabin Fever
The Review’s poetry blogger, Lisa Russ Spaar, considers the ephemera–little nothings that mean so many things–of writers in their winter shelters.
