Columns

Students often tell me the old lie they’ve been told themselves—Hemingway’s prose is simplicity itself. (“What do Hemingway scholars have...

By Oronte

I was brought up short by the snap of recognition the other day. In classes I often use the late...

By Oronte

How did the Liberty Bell get stuck in an ugly prefab, which looks like a small rest stop you’d see...

By Oronte

I’ll admit it: It took me too long to come around to Scotland, and I blame that on the American...

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After applying for tenure-track jobs this year, I got a letter from a university in the California State system, signed...

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Our house was built at the end of the Civil War and is listed on the National Register of Historic...

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My mom was a teacher. What’s more—and it is more, since not all teachers are the same—she had an intense...

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I read Scott McLemee’s column on clutter yesterday in my office. Administrators refer to the room as the Adjunct Ghetto...

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