Recent Articles
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Confessions of an Accidental Literary Scholar
Writers live on one side of the tracks. Lit scholars live on the other. One crazed grad student dared to walk the rails.
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College Presidents' Salaries
Institutions are suffering, but for the most part their leaders' pay isn't. Does that make sense? Experts weigh in.
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Design for Disability Will Become the Norm
As populations age, devices for the physically challenged become devices for everyone, writes Peter Monaghan.
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Howard Zinn, Philosopher
Christopher Phelps says that the historian's approach to his craft and calling was, at root, existentialist.
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Well, Naturally We're Liberal
Academe's left-of-center bias isn't so hard to explain, writes Jere P. Surber.
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Robert B. Parker, the Hard-Boiled Professor
The writer, who died this month, married the literary to the streetwise and the domestic to the macho, says Leonard Cassuto.
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Economists Eye Identity
In their new book, George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton make the case that how you see yourself influences your financial behavior. By Evan R. Goldstein.
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Women, Birth, Death, and Mathematics
Female mathematicians' careers may be more nonlinear than those of their male counterparts, says Susan D'Agostino. That's how it should be.
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Weekly Book List, February 8, 2010
Descriptions of new scholarly books, organized by category. Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub.
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Scholars Turn Their Attention to Attention
New insights into the nature of learning, memory, and intelligence may prove valuable in the classroom, David Glenn reports.
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Our Digitally Undying Memories
The Internet never forgets, and that's not necessarily good for us, writes Siva Vaidhyanathan.
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Attention, Please! Your Book Is Calling
According to Amy Benson Brown, there are various kinds of focus involved in scholarly productivity. She suggests how to cultivate and enjoy them.
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Appraising Information Abundance
Faced with an overwhelming amount of data in our everyday lives, why don't we feel more overwhelmed? asks W. Russell Neuman.
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Almost Time to Write. Almost Time ...
With all of Daniela Werner's precomposing rituals, it's amazing this column ever got finished.
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A Core Curriculum for Civic Literacy
Education's got a big hole in it, writes Donald Lazere, and colleges should fill it.
