Tennessee student opens bookstore to pay for college
Trent Crowthers started with a $600 investment from his parents, which he used to buy books from eBay… Read more »
Archives of Ruskin College under threat
Ruskin College, Oxford, was founded in 1899 as a college for the working class, for individuals who had been excluded from conventional paths of study, and it became a model… Read more »
How should women be?
Consider the titles of some of this year’s biggest female-wrought creativity: Girls, How Should a Person Be?, Vagina, How to be a Woman. These are titles with magnitude, splashed across the front of hardbacks… Read more »
Jane Austen fanatics flock to New York
I spotted their booth one year at the Brooklyn Book Festival: the Jane Austen Society of North America, otherwise known as JASNA. I picked up a brochure and chatted with… Read more »
Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay
What political leaders the world over refuse to admit, monkeys understand at first sight. Primatologist Frans de Waal revisits an old experiment and discovers one of the truths of the… Read more »