The recent shuttering of the University of Missouri Press raises an important question for all academic publishers: is the cost of peer review to blame?
Publish or Perish, But Please Don’t Peer Review
Unferth on Lerner
The always fantastic Deb Olin Unferth reviews Ben Lerner‘s Leaving the Atocha Station.
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A Not so Steamy First Time
Jesse Bering on his incredibly inelegant first time writing about sex. Cf. his most recent adventures of writing about sex, his new book Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?.