A personal essay in which novelist Sorayya Khan maps her family’s path from Islamabad to Solvay.
Academia
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Who’s Left to Defend Tommy Curry?
A black philosopher at Texas A&M thought forcing a public discussion about race and violence was his job. Turns out people didn’t want to hear it.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Life Measured in Swipe-Rights
Andrew Kay found himself on the dating scene and the academic job market at the time time, living life as one long interview.
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Pilgrim at Tinder Creek
Life as an audition: the job market, the dating market, and the way we construct ourselves to impress.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How the Humanities Became Morally Incoherent
When the people teaching Milton and Morrison subsist on leftover chips.
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‘The Great Shame of Our Profession’
When an adjunct literature instructor from Harvard won a prestigious literary criticism award, he chose to deliver a scathing critique of his discipline as his acceptance speech.
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A Shot in the Arm
Why would a tenure-track professor find himself selling his plasma to make rent? A story about debt in the academic world.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
A Shot in the Arm
Why would a tenure-track professor find himself selling his plasma to make rent? A story about debt in the academic world.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Shot in the Arm
Why would a tenure-track professor find himself selling his plasma to make rent? A story about debt in the academic world.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Breaking Elgar’s Enigma: Cryptographic Genius or Crackpot?
In New Republic, Daniel Estrin writes about how a former insurance adjuster claims to have solved the 118-year-old cryptographic mystery of the hidden message in Edward Elgar’s infamous Enigma Variations.