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It seems to me that the popular mistrust of critics, especially when they write using specialized language , is structurally similar to popu...

Here's the journalist Janet Malcolm on Gertrude Stein, chiming in with a long, woman-hating tradition (on which see DeKoven and Stimpson...

It is difficult not to suppose something like this scattered condition of mind to be the usual state of brutes when not actively engaged in ...

Okay, does anyone not think this is a shout-out to Dreyer and Falconetti ?

In poetry in English, pyrrhics are not a real thing. This has been a PSA.

In three minutes, U of Minnesota professor Eva von Dassow lays out to her own regents why budget cuts that target the liberal arts especial...

It's a little annoying of me to blog something that is no longer on display, but I was busy, so there it is. A little over a week ago I ...

In the midst of a satisfying rant about the recent NYT faux-forum on tenure, Aaron notes: But the real problem is simply that this was nev...

Oh, hello, blog; I see that you exist.

For when you're halfway through a draft, realize the architecture of your essay is absolute nonsense, draw some diagrams in a notebook, ...

One of my jobs at Arcade is to contact humanities centers about the possibility of cross-posting their audio and video recordings of events...

"[H]e said this in joke, but I've no dought [ sic ] it was founded on truth."     --Susy Clemens, aged fourteen, writing of he...