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The Cycles of Biography

The more biographies I read, the more I sense the difficulties of the form. Many are patchy, uneven; the herky-jerk...

What Catherine Gass Knows

Today I have the pleasure of posting an interview with Catherine Gass , who’s been the Photographer at the Newberry...

University Quagmires

The last couple of years have brought reportage (see here and here, for instance) on scholars becoming involved with activities...

Tibetan Book of the Adjunct

Little-known until now, the Tibetan Book of the Adjunct: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between provides spiritual guidance to those...

Crowd Control

Even after years of observing the phenomenon, I have no explanation. Obviously, one might think that on a rainy Monday...

This Just In: April the Cruelest Month

Hemingway felt it in Paris: [Y]ou could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would...

Edible Books

There are many ways to play with your food, from making sustainable gingerbread houses to molding Jell-o buildings, but today...

The Adjunct Comedy

Comedy, it’s been said, is made possible by incomplete understanding. If one fully understood another’s suffering, the story would turn...