In Bright Star, Jane Campion steers the love story of Fanny Brawne and John Keats away from sentimentality.
As the 2009 World Series begins, we might fairly ask: what is the meaning of baseball?
What can possibly account for the many millions of hours we spend watching babies laugh, dogs sleepwalk, and cats do strange things on the Internet?
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor. Unlike the independent highbrows and unself-conscious lowbrows, middlebrows, it seems, are so invested in “getting on in life” that they do not really like anything unless it has been approved by their betters. For Woolf and her heirs, middlebrows are inauthentic, meretricious bounders, slaves [...]
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Millenial Muddle: How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions. Figuring out young people has always been a chore, but today it’s also an industry. Colleges and corporations pay experts big bucks to help them understand the fresh-faced hordes that pack the nation’s dorms [...]
Annie Dillard’s classic Pilgrim at Tinker Creek inspires a budding writer to really, truly see.
The Baader Meinhof Complex is a complex, challenging film about extremism and powerlessness.
What does your food say about you?