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In his NYT piece, " Is Dumbledore Gay? Depends on Definitions of 'Is' and 'Gay' ," Edward Rothstein opines that e...

From the NYT , of course (via Silliman , source of the best linkspam around): I’ve always thought of myself as having two careers, one as a ...

Apparently I can only post about children's lit lately, but I swear this comes from a non-children's lit source. I attended Scott Bu...

From the great swamps of authorial intention: JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay

I read Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke recently. From the Gosh, I Sure Am Surprised department comes the initial description of ...

The Guardian has published some excerpts from linguist Deborah Cameron's new book The Myth of Mars and Venus . The idea that men and w...

Allen Ginsberg's Howl was deemed too obscene to broadcast . Whereas, apparently, spending millions on a home and then spending millions...

Piled Higher and Deeper appears to be the grad-student-centric web comic of choice. Unfortunately, PHD is all about engineers. The recent a...

In the New York Times today: Limbaugh Latest Victim in War of Condemnation Victims of real war: soldiers and civilians injured or killed in...

Rae Armantrout, Th 9/27 at UC Berkeley ( Holloway Series ) Ron Silliman, Tu 10/2 at Mills College ( details )

One problem I keep running into in the classroom is my students' vague sense of history. In a way, they're not at fault. There is no...

Gilbert and Gubar open The Madwoman in the Attic provocatively with the question, "Is the pen a metaphorical penis?" Their aim is...