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Attitudes Toward Kenneth Burke
It's been almost twenty years since the death of an American intellectual maverick. But Scott McLemee finds there is plenty of life left in his work.
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Ask the Administrator: Spreading the Good Word
A thoughtful returning correspondent writes: For 20+ years there have been all kinds of boards and national commissions recommending changes...
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Immersed in 'The Art of Immersion'
The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories by...
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Love in a Time of Algorithms
In last Sunday's New York Times Jonathan Franzen wrote about the ways love, technology, and consumerism are growing blurred. We...
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Literacy in the Digital Age: Conclusion
I do not have a rabbit to pull out of a hat. The situation is complicated. But the situation of...
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It's Journal Month
I made that up, I guess, but why not? I love reading journals, diaries, and notebooks, especially of writers I...
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Two Moments
Decades after an action in class he regretted instantly, Lauren Soth meets the student he embarrassed.