This April, Fitzcarraldo Editions , a new, small and vibrant publisher, issued  Counternarratives in the UK and British Commonwealth co...

There was a period a few years ago when I was posting memorials so often that I started to feel as if my blog was turning into an obituary ...

UPDATED : I've posted the YouTube video of the event below! *** Last night's reading at Community Bookstore  in Park Slope...

Carlos Fuentes, at home in Mexico, 2001 (Henry Romero/Reuters) In the mid-1980s, Carlos Fuentes (1928-2011) was at the height of his ...

Last week I posted a summary of Alexander Kafka 's discussion, in the Chronicle of Higher Education , of Eric Kandel 's newest b...

At 3 pm today, all grades had to be in, and mine were, so I officially have concluded the winter quarter! And what did winter quarter comp...

September is nearly over, the quarter charges forward, my classes have begun.  This fall I am teaching two fiction classes, one undergrad...

One of the newer areas of literary scholarly and critical inquiry, at least over the last 10 years, has involved exploring philosophical ...

Lower Manhattan, from Hoboken, or The Calm before the Storm Irene , if I recall correctly from my long-ago high school Greek classes, m...