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ABC's and PhD's: Book Club, revisited

At the beginning of November I blogged about our first meeting of the SS-MD-BC (second Sunday mother-daughter book club) my...

Tick Tock

Last night I took The Girl to the local Father-Daughter dance, which is a big event for girls here in...

Don't Be a Jerk

Spring may seem distant in a year in which 49 states have snow on the ground, but those coming up...

A Taste for Language

An academic autobiography that's not at all self-centered? Scott McLemee looks into an interesting composition.

Managing to change

According to the web newsletter Environmental Leader, the British consulting firm Verdantix has just published a report describing four strategies...

The Fun of Novel Writing

I’d forgotten how fun, even exciting, the early stages of research on a novel can be. This week I’ve gotten...

Gerrymandering the Canon

Scholars should move beyond dividing literature by nationality and stop equating literature with literature written in English, writes Dan Edelstein.

Local Control?

I know I'm supposed to believe that standardization, state or national rules, or anything beyond local control is of the...