When Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak met Jacques Derrida. "I did not recognize him until he came up to me and said, in French, “Je m’appelle Jacques Derrida,” and I almost died... more »
For Mary Norris, the comma queen, an early encounter with Greek mythology initiatied a lifelong infatuation with the magic of the ancient world... more »
"The habit of seeing universities as the main or even sole custodians of humanistic culture isn’t just inaccurate; it is bad for universities themselves"... more »