Essays by a writer of literary lives meditate on the obsessions and obstacles endemic to her trade.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein A recent essay ...

Ruchir Joshi's ambitious novel, Great Eastern Hotel, explores art, characters, and Calcutta in a loquacious, people-dense ...

Dylan is the Picasso of popular music. His 'Ballad of a Thin Man' speaks more powerfully to what it feels like to be alive in 2025 than anything I can think of.

Former Soviet republic, now a fledgling democracy, needs programs that support independent media, human rights and economic ...

A simple strategy can help students map out their assignments in manageable chunks so they can stay on top of their work.

The weekly newspaper that ran from 1950 to 1970 declared itself the only paper ‘100% interested in San Diego’s Peninsula area ...

On the one hand, it memorializes an origin of Bachardy’s intense commitment to portraiture as an artistic genre. The Los ...

College admissions are broken — and everyone knows it. Working at a number of colleges over my career has taught me the ideal ...

Part of her practice has been to pinpoint things people don’t want to talk about and figure out how to talk about them ...

Drew was particularly inspired by the Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin, who saw creation as imbued with the Spirit. ...

Ideally, a grade should “accurately reflect a student’s current understanding of the course content, free from biases,” ...