“You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.” –Gustave Flaubert “The imagination is man’s power over nature.” –Wallace Stevens It happens to all of us at one time...
As the economic crisis continues to deepen, many New Yorkers are choosing to return to school, and are looking to do so as cheaply as possible. CUNY has enjoyed a sharp 12 percent increase in applications over the past year, which will likely lead to CUNY’s highest enrollment ever next...
Sometimes data and statistics fail us. I work in the humanities so I’m not entirely surprised to say this, but I was shocked when I saw the data released in a recent report by the American Association of University Professors on the Economic Status of the Profession. Swimming in charts...
Robert Reid-Pharr The tremendous impact that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, has had on the intellectual lives of an entire generation of scholars cannot be overstated. As a writer, teacher, mentor, and friend her sophisticated, precise...
Beneath a half-completed section of highway overpass on the dusty outskirts of Dakar, Moussa spreads his arms widely to the concrete slab above his head. "This is what the tycoon classes want for Senegal!" he announces with theatrical triumph. "New roads for their new...
