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Learning and scholarship

Pro Tips

by Shihab al-Din Nuwayri,

From The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, a fourteenth-century encyclopedia by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, an Egyptian scholar. The book was published this month by Penguin Classics. Translated from…

The Neoliberal Arts

by William Deresiewicz,

How college sold its soul to the market

On Not Being Well Read

by John Crowley,

I loved reading before I could read. I have a distinct memory — yes, our memories are subject to lapses and improvisations, but this one has been around so long I…

Tenure Road

Titles of articles included in the first issue of BOSS: The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies, published this August.

The extraction of the stone of folly

Art by Hieronymus Bosch,

In darkest academia

by Cullen Murphy,

Publish a best-seller and perish

The shame of the graduate schools

by William Arrowsmith,

A plea for a new American scholar

The place of mystery in the life of the mind

by Norman Oliver Brown,

Introductory comment

by Benjamin Nelson,

The cults of “research” and “creativity”

by Jacques Barzun,

Guilt by distinction

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

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