The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has recently announced its new 2010 members. The University of Chicago Press is pleased to note that five
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain. And as this article in the Guardian points out
Romey’s Order is a charged sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina
Andrew Piper’s Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age explores literary culture at the turn of the nineteenth century
Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution—in Jimmy Breslin’s words, “the best
New Yorkers may be left without anyone to hold the door this week if the union representing more than 30,000 workers in residential buildings calls
While volcanic eruptions—like this recent one in the Alaskan wilderness—actually happen with some frequency, most do not make international headlines. The exception, of course, has
Yesterday, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its eighty-sixth class of fellows. Among those honored with the prestigious award were a number of familiar
As Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester write in this recent article from the Huffington Post, in the wake of 9/11, and the subsequent
Study after study has tackled the question of how young children learn—and for decades Vivian Gussin Paley has argued that if we want the best