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Picking up on the premodern vs. modern theme of yesterday's post, Grad School Friend (who is on the tenure track...

Norman Mailer has won England's annual Bad Sex Award, posthumously, for a passage in one of his last novels. Here's...

"It's like when someone says plate. And then someone says shrimp. And then someone says plate of shrimp .... It's...

My guest today is John Warner, editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a man who once took a chance on a...

A returning correspondent writes: I'm just starting to think of the hiring season and, while I'm at a urban high...

Over the past decade much discussion has focused on the growing percentage of college teaching done by contingent faculty. Variously...

No, not the guy standing in front of the toilet door on the charter bus from Michigan State to Daytona...

Although some on campus like to talk about The Administration as a monolith, like The Borg, it's actually composed of...