Cracks in the Foundation of the Ivory Tower
If the current economic state of academia seems grim, well, it is.In an essay for Dissent, Claire Goldstene plumbs the ins and outs of student-loan debt, the exploitation of adjunct professors, and...
View ArticleThe Rise of a New Socialist Literary Scene
Facing financial inequality and burdened with debt, millennials have discovered Marxism, writes Timothy Shenk for the Nation. And millennial writers are leveraging technology, rejecting old guard...
View ArticleThe Art of the Office Novel
Office fiction is deliberately and narrowly construed as being about manners, sociability, gossip, the micro-struggles for rank and status—in other words, “office politics”—rather than about the work...
View ArticleIrving Howe’s Poor Timing
In The New Republic, David Marcus has a comprehensive essay on Irving Howe, exploring, among other things, how the writer’s generation may have had setbacks by arriving too “late” but also too...
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The Rumpus Interview with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
It comes as a surprise to learn that there exists a global citizenship market, in which passports are bought and sold. Citizenship, the common thinking goes, not only determines our opportunities (a...
View ArticleAre Writers Too Safe?
Is a lack of economic stability making writers too safe? Maggie Doherty argues “yes”:Nearly half a century later, we find ourselves at a different sort of crisis point. Radical literary experimentation...
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