There’s a frustrating article by Tim Parks up on the NYRBlog now about the the dull new global novel. I’ll save the breezy history of the novel Parks provides (making an economic and democratic case for moving to the vernacular from Latin) and furnish his closing two paragraphs, which turn the whine into vermouth: If [...]
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We just finished the baseball unit in the course I’m teaching, “Male Fantasy Sports.” The course is a crosslisted English and Gender Studies with 14 students (syllabus | departmental description | photo of books at the bookstore). Most students major in the social sciences, but there are a pair of English majors, and three or [...]
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