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Back to Methuselah
The executive editor of MIT Press has been at his post for three decades. Scott McLemee checks in with a patriarch of academic publishing.
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Studying the Inhumanities
A new collection documents the American policy of cruel and inhumane "non-torture." Scott McLemee takes a look.
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Starting Out in the Evening
An unfilmable novel about literary life hits the cineplex. Scott McLemee interviews the author.
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Around the Web
What are the best academic blogs you've never heard of? Scott McLemee beats the bushes for leads
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Beyond Islamophobofascism
Al Qaeda's strategists have a battle plan. Scott McLemee wants to duck and cover....
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Man Bites Dog
A mainstream newspaper covering academic books regularly? Scott McLemee looks into it.
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Talking to Himself
The oral historian Studs Terkel now tells his life's story. Scott McLemee listens to a puzzling silence in the tale.
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Makin' Bacon
Word got around some months ago that a French psychoanalyst had published a guide to talking about books without reading...