Books & Publishing

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Author discusses new book about class inequality at an elite university.

Two sociologists interviewed law deans and admissions officers about impact of U.S. News rankings on legal education -- and their new book says impact is significant and generally negative.

Scott McLemee reviews Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir, by Benedict Anderson, whose sense of scholarship, and of life itself, was that it ought to be a mode of open-ended exploration.

Decision to grant a publisher the right to print the writings of Aaron Swartz -- viewed by some as a martyr of the open-access movement -- sets off a debate about copyright.

New book decodes key terms for academic life, from A to Z.

Several developments in the humanities this week are as newsworthy as the Pulitzers -- and possibly more consequential in the long run, writes Scott McLemee.

New book argues that professors should actively resist the "culture of speed" in academe.