Noam Chomsky, in conversation at the University of Arizona, derides the rising cost of university tuition. He goes on to say student fees are “a general form of indoctrination and control, which goes down to kindergarten. I mean, that’s what No Child Left Behind is about. It’s training for the Marine Corps.”
Chomsky on Schooling
Annie’s Pilgrimage
Annie Leibovitz discusses her new book Pilgrimage, and how the project became a journey of personal and artistic renewal.
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“Will you accept these abs?”
A new season of The Bachelorette is upon us, and we all know what that means: a whole new batch of Leigh Stein’s Bachelorette poems!
Kazuo Ishiguro To Publish First Novel in Ten Years
Next March, Kazuo Ishiguro will publish his first novel since Never Let Me Go. The new book, entitled The Buried Giant, is said to be about “lost memories, love, revenge and war.”
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In Search of Lost Verse
Here’s the first known poem of Marcel Proust, written at age seventeen and entitled “Pederasty.”
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