Two of our recommended books this week put rock music front and center: Peter Ames Carlin’s biography of the band R.E.M., and Izumi Suzuki’s novel of Tokyo’s rock scene in the early 1980s. We also like a biography of the physicist Roger Penrose, a study of the 20th-century novel, and fiction by Elias Khoury and […]
erep meagan malone 550px Meagan Malone, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of English, has created a website and blog called Composing in the Age of GenAI . In addition to resources, including classroom activities, assignments and rubrics from her first-year composition and professional writing courses, the site aims to connect practitioners.Few of the millions […]
In one of Sophie Calle’s first artistic experiments, she invited twenty-seven friends, acquaintances, and strangers to sleep in her bed. She photographed them awake and asleep, secretly recording any private conversation once the door closed. She served each a meal, and, if they agreed, subjected them to a questionnaire that probed their personal predilections, habits, […]
“ My Good Bright Wolf ,” a new memoir by the novelist Sarah Moss, begins in dishabille. A narrator is speaking to herself in the second person, and she’s using language recognizable from fairy tales and old poetry. “In the middle of the journey of your life,” she says, “you found yourself in a dark […]
Sometimes as educators, you need to look outside of the classroom and beyond the walls of the school to find people who can inspire students and yourselves as teachers in ways you could not have imagined. Our schools are in communities full of people with talents that can benefit teaching and learning. Educators can seek […]
