Selected New Books on Higher Education
The latest books published on issues related to college teaching and academe.
View ArticleChoosing What Americans Choose
Two new books on how niche marketing and other forces circumscribe our lives.
View ArticleRemembering a Golden Age of Reading
A writer recalls the magical world he discovered as a boy, which remains with him still.
View ArticleSelected New Books on Higher Education
Selected new books on issues related to college teaching and academe.
View ArticleAmerican Jazz, Africa's Voice
A book recounts the revolutionary musical and cultural cross-rhythms between two continents in the 50s and 60s.
View ArticleScholarly Publishing Needs a New Model: iTunes
"It seems to us that the standard academic publishing model is in dire need of reform."
View ArticleShould Writers Reply to Reviewers?
Get slammed in a book review? Take it in stride. Turn the other cheek. Then again ...
View ArticleMy Last Index
In which our narrator explains why she will hire a professional indexer for her next book.
View ArticleHot Type: An Open Letter to Academic Publishers About Open Access
Dear publishers: Are you nervous? Some of you should be.
View ArticleWhy Bother Writing Book Reviews?
It's better to write one good article than to review 20 books, and even better to write one good book.
View ArticleNota Bene: Home Sweet Motel; Con Ed
New books investigate the American dream as experienced by Indian-American motel owners and identity theft from the thief's perspective.
View Article'Ameritopia': How Dumb Can Political Philosophy Get?
Conservatives complain, perhaps fairly, that nobody reviews their books. Be careful what you wish for.
View ArticleA Byzantine Plot
A revisionist take on the First Crusade gives the emperor of Constantinople a larger role.
View ArticleSusan Gubar's Closing Chapters
In her memoir on ovarian cancer, the scholar confronts an elusive issue for women: telling the truth about experiences of the female body.
View ArticlePortnoy's Enduring Complaint
A world dizzy with lust and disgust, irony and rage. Such were the literary epiphanies boomers found in Roth.
View ArticleCultural-Studies Journal Gets Revamped for a 'Different Intellectual Moment'
The new editors at "Public Culture" hope to reach beyond an academic audience.
View ArticleSpies, Shtarkers, and Sex Gods: Film's New Jews
Both grotesque anti-Semitic stereotypes and bland assimilationist mensches of yesteryear have been transmuted into multilayered, vivid characters, a new book argues.
View ArticleNovel Academic Novels: the Sequel
Ms. Mentor offers her annual summer reading list for faculty members.
View ArticleArmando Montaño, Former Chronicle Intern, Dies at 22
The recent graduate of Grinnell College was found dead in Mexico City, where he was working for the Associated Press.
View ArticleMarilyn Still Bewitches Biographers
But new theoretical readings, including third-wave feminists' embrace, may shed more light on our era than they do on the actress herself.
View ArticleThe Future of Peer Review in the Humanities? It's Open
Nobody likes the current system, and most everybody agrees it should move online. But from there, opinions diverge.
View ArticleLet's Spread the Word About Fair Use
There's no need for you to ask permission to use my book chapter in your course pack, let alone pay me for it.
View ArticleWant to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No
Companies shouldn't make millions from the free labor of professors.
View ArticleDitch the Monograph
Short-form e-books can be a respectable way to deliver serious scholarship.
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