Academic DESTINATIONS

A Scholar's Own City

Alice Kaplan explores the far reaches of Paris.

Slideshow: Photographs of Paris by Patrick Zachman

New rhythms and resources in the Paris suburbs
Paris, When You Get There: Cafes, restaurants, hotels, and more
Paris by bicycle?

Academic PASSIONS

Wading Into Literature

For James Barilla, fly-fishing is a way to temporarily escape concerns about human existence.

Is This MIT Professor Today's Marshall McLuhan?

Video: Henry Jenkins mud-wrestles his wife

Podcast: An interview with Jenkins

List: Humanities research that crosses boundaries

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Henry Jenkins III (Photograph by Stu Rosner)

Academic CAUSES

'Learning From Below'

Gayatri Spivak calls the gap between middle-class schools and those for the poor "an absolute and accepted divide, the consolidation of continuing class apartheid" in India.

Academic INTELLIGENCE

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