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A front-page article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal goes into some detail about how Dell Computer's announcement earlier this year...

“When at a loss how to go on, cough,” says an ancient Greek proverb. Or so claims 10,000 Jokes, Toasts...

The MLA convention in San Francisco this year is spread out over two hotels, one on either side of Market...

The panel titled "Negotiating Family and Graduate Studies", sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the...

My first San Francisco MLA, I didn't get any closer to the convention than the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel...

For those interviewing at MLA this year, here are links to a couple of dispatches I did for McSweeney's on...

I'm not sure when or why December 26 became Boxing Day but it always has been, at least in my...

Do you know the great children’s album The Bottle Let Me Down? Get it, even if you don’t have kids...