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Varieties of Gratification
Tim Peters, who graduated from here a couple of years ago, was a philosophy major, as I recall. When he...
Things Have Changed
“I’m not a communist,” I said cryptically to a class the other day after I’d come in and sat down...
Guest Book Review: 'On Pain of Speech'
On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant , by Dina Al-Kassim. University of California...
Our Knowing by Bits and Pieces
In “ The Fact Behind the Facts, or, How You Can Get It All Right and Still Get It All...
Book Review: 'Stories' and 'Stories II,' by Scott McClanahan
You’re going to want to keep your eye on Scott McClanahan, since he’s a terrific writer and a little sly...
Guest Post: Neil Verma on the First Casualty of War
My friend Neil Verma is a Harper Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago...
On Self-Promotion
Surprised to realize recently that I’ve interviewed some 18 people here, from a Vietnamese IT expert to a US Special...
The Classless Society
Unofficial St. Patrick's Day, 2011. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need...." Working stiff. Stiffing...