“The End Is Where We Start From”: On Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture”
Bradley Babendir reviews Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture.”
Bradley Babendir reviews Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture.”
Bradley BabendirSep 25, 2017
Jacquelyn Ardam reviews a new critical study of cryptic modernist poet Mina Loy.
Jacquelyn ArdamAug 13, 2017
Peter Adamson’s “Philosophy in the Islamic World” marks a revolution: it redraws the map of the history of philosophy in a fundamental way.
Carlos FraenkelJul 29, 2017
Part of a LARB forum in which philosophers reflect on the legacy of Richard Rorty.
Santiago ZabalaJul 22, 2017
Stephanie Newman interviews Dr. Andrea Pető, a professor of Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest.
Stephanie NewmanJun 7, 2017
Andrew Seal on Nancy Weiss Malkiel's "'Keep the Damned Women Out': The Struggle for Coeducation."
Andrew SealJun 3, 2017
Michael Meranze reviews Stefan Collini’s “Speaking of Universities.”
Michael MeranzeMay 23, 2017
Matt Seidel on Marc Nieson's "Schoolhouse."
Matt SeidelFeb 8, 2017
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon review Christopher Newfield’s new book on public universities.
Paul Reitter, Chad WellmonDec 13, 2016
Part 11 of a new series exploring the role of the digital humanities, as well as the digital in the humanities as it currently exists in the US...
Melissa DinsmanAug 10, 2016
Garrard Conley widens the scope of queer literature with his memoir about growing up in a devout Baptist home and surviving conversion therapy.
Steven TagleJun 23, 2016
A review of Leonard Cassuto’s "The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It".
Stephen MilderMay 26, 2016
There is an equally heartbreaking loss of another young doctor in Paul Kalanithi’s book, one especially troubling because it received almost no...
Lois LeveenMay 25, 2016
When we ask why we don’t have enough time, we make it worse.
Jeffrey L. KoskyMay 24, 2016
In India today, a powerful propagandist — commercial media — has replaced the state broadcasting apparatus. This is neoliberal politics, Indian style.
Arvind RajagopalMay 5, 2016
IF THERE WAS EVER a melting pot, we were it.” So reminisced a proud alumnus of Mission High School in 1977, when his alma mater, San Francisco’s...
Natalia Mehlman PetrzelaApr 10, 2016
On the fight to keep the Akron Series in Poetry alive.
Philip MetresJan 29, 2016
Gone is the heyday of the enlightened institution. It is possible, some fear, that an anti-education has emerged in its wake.
Mimi HowardJan 9, 2016
Hannah Sanghee Park’s poems accelerate by breaking down.
Jessica LaserJan 5, 2016
Richard Beck argues that day care ritual abuse trials of the 1980s were a vengeful response to a changing social order poised to grant women new...
Jacqui ShineDec 13, 2015
The modern university is an efficient site for the neoliberal commoditizing of knowledge.
Desiree LewisDec 9, 2015
Universities, in the interest of increasing enrollments (= money), are willing to flatter you and your children so shamelessly …
Ron SrigleyDec 9, 2015
Elite colleges are not meritocracies — if by “meritocracy” we mean that students are admitted solely on the basis of high test scores.
Steven BrintSep 13, 2015
The students of Mendez High School in Boyle Heights write a book about the influential but little-known school desegregation case after which their...
Scott DoyleJun 18, 2015