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He Said, She Said

In each of two new novels, Loner and Diary of an Oxygen Thief, it is the narrator's attitude that sticks with the reader more than the events recounted, writes Scott McLemee.

'The Uberfication of the University'

Author discusses new book on the relationship between the "sharing economy" and the erosion of faculty rights.

The Future of Educational Materials

Sept. 19, 2016 -- "The Future of Educational Materials and the Role of the College Bookstore," the new print-on-demand compendium...

Indiana's Grand Textbook Compromise

Better service, lower prices, higher profits. Indiana U may have found a textbook acquisition model that makes everyone happy.
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On the Offbeat

A legendary American miracle worker claimed to read books without opening them -- a trick researchers have just pulled off in the lab. Scott McLemee looks from inside a lattice of coincidences.

What Students Really Think

A new book by undergraduates at Michigan State offers teaching advice based on thousands of comments from students starting with the prompt, 'To my professor...'

Digital Education, the 'Mainstream Orthodoxy'

New book examines how technology is changing education -- and whether that change is for the better.
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Fundamental Trump

Aaron James's provocative new theory on Donald Trump suggests that the presidential candidate's rise makes a certain amount of sense in the context of a republic collapsing under strain, writes Scott McLemee.