Class Notes
A blog about the art of teaching, with new posts each Tuesday by Paula Marantz Cohen, a distinguished professor of English at Drexel University and the author of the novels Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death and the SATs and What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper.
Stand-Up 101 - May 15, 2011
I recently sat in on a colleague’s course on stand-up comedy—an odd course, perhaps, but one that is gaining traction on college campuses.
All Points
A blog about American culture, with new posts each Monday by William Deresiewicz, author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter.
Enough - May 21, 2012
I published a piece last week in The New York Times in critique of the ethics of capitalism.
Browsings
A blog about the odd pleasures of the bookish life, with new posts each Friday by Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic with the Washington Post and the author of several books, including An Open Book and On Conan Doyle.
Cowboys and Clubmen - May 18, 2012
During most of my life I’ve thought of myself as a loner, an unexpected consequence of watching far too many westerns on Saturday afternoons when young.
Psycho Babble
A blog about language with posts each Thursday by Jessica Love, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her article about pronouns, “They Get to Me,” appeared in our Spring 2010 issue.
Rules Versus Rules: What The New Yorker Got Wrong - May 17, 2012
The old brouhaha between prescriptivists (interested in dictating how languageshould be) and descriptivists (interested in documenting what it is) continues to simmer.
Science Frictions
A blog about science with posts each Wednesday by Priscilla Long, the author of The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life. Her essay “Genome Tome,” which appeared in our Summer 2005 issue, won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.
Remembering Abraham Lincoln - May 16, 2012
My maternal great-grandfather, Abraham Lincoln Erisman, was born in 1862, the child of a foot soldier in the Civil War.
