University Diaries

Cesare Pavese, the Italian writer who killed himself in 1950, when he was 41, once wrote: "Every luxury must be...

"I must continue to write for the same reason I am always compelled to write, in sickness and in health...

The University of Kentucky, a public institution, used to hold the papers of that state's most esteemed living writer, Wendell...

Because Leopold Bloom doesn't lie. He doesn't pretend he's Living Your Best Life Now! He's not self-actualized. He's not working...

"Medical school is the wrong place to train psychiatrists," writes Daniel Carlat in his new book, Unhinged: The Trouble with...

Peter Porter, a poet born in Australia but resident mainly in England, has died, at 81. Here's one of his...

"People seemed to run out of their own being," says Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman in American Pastoral, as he considers...

The laptop ban story has broken out of its narrow precincts. Articles on the subject used to cover the handful...