2008 MacArthur Fellows announced
Congratulations to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Alex Ross, personal favorites and 2008 MacArthur award fellows.
Congratulations to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Alex Ross, personal favorites and 2008 MacArthur award fellows.
In a charming profile, Bryan Appleyard gets Marilynne Robinson talking about her writing — and her life.
If the Wall Street bailout was a money-transfer scam e-mail, it might look a little like this. (Thanks, Max.)
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It’s difficult to picture Melville asking a group of undergrads, “What’s at stake in this story?†or Dickinson clapping a colleague on the back after a faculty meeting.