My favorite love song of the past few years is “Video Games,” by Lana Del Ray because of the third line of the chorus. It’s the song’s most burlesque moment, a come-on that should feel scuzzy and ...

In Psychoneural Reduction: The New Wave, John Bickle presents his most recent ideas from the "new wave" school of reductive materialism. After presenting Bickle's account of scientific theory ...

This article presents a linguistic analysis of a specific feature of a literary genre: the artificial punning found in the Egyptian Arabic narrative ballad (as described in Cachia 1989). A comparison ...

October. The month of the beautiful Massachusetts autumn. Amidst the workload of college and the beginning of fall, it is easy to forget that it is also the time of the year called the “Red Zone,” or ...

Macmillan has agreed to pay up to twenty million dollars to settle the Department of Justice e-book price fixing lawsuit, making it the fifth and final of the accused publishers to reach a settlement.

The eminent philosopher, literary critic, and political activist Judith Butler is coming to New York. She will join Columbia University’s English and comparative literature department as a visiting ...

In his autobiographical book, A fantasia organizada (Organized fantasy; Paz e Terra, 1985), economist Celso Furtado (1920–2004) relates a curious episode back in 1951. The first results from a study ...

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Chantal Akerman, whose movies revolutionized both feminist and structuralist cinema, has died at the age of 65. Her death leaves a gap as incalculable as her impact on the history of cinema; that she ...