University Diaries

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

Professor Thomas Doherty of Brandeis University will be in UD's Thanksgiving prayers today. Most Americans can't stand professors -- they've...

The spate of fake hate crimes at America's universities makes going after these people and punishing them crucial. Truly malicious...

Norman Mailer's death has brought out the bow ties, the tightly-wound and the closely-cropped, for whom the only noteworthy thing...

When, in 2004, UD started blogging at her flagship campus, University Diaries I, she was amazed at the story of...

...and, as an arty type, I've got my bag of treats for the night: The Day of the Dead passages...

It's always a cheap thrill when psychiatrists - especially academic psychiatrists - turn out to be infantile, ridiculous people. An...

This post's subtitle rewrites something Hamlet said: How all occasions do inform against me... Prose discloses. However much you think...