During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

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We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy

On the music of new poetry collections from Jennifer Clarvoe and Susan Stewart.

An intimate encounter with four young poets on their way to literary fame in the legendary grit and glitter of postwar New York "I defy readers to withstand the romance of the moment Kindley so beau...

Politicians think faculty members don’t teach enough. Here’s what the data says.

Labor organizing on campus is vitally needed in academia. It’s also a necessary step in connecting academics to the other workers facing the same struggles.

If Gass entertained any escape fantasies, however, The Tunnel does not indulge them. It’s the big, the biggest, Man Alone in a House story. It’s an anti–systems novel, uninterested in conspiracist lin...

Modernist poetry has long had a reputation for craft formalism and political conservatism that overshadows its radical legacies. Lukas Moe shows how midcentu...

Penn State faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing, in a closely watched decision that could have sweeping implications across the university.

There is one group that never suffers any consequences from austerity-induced program closures. In fact, this group profits.

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Joshua Stanley looks at two new works by the poet J. H. Prynne, "Or Scissel" and "Of Better Scrap."

Why USC Academic Senate veterans are voting yes on RTPC unionization.

In PIANO PIANO, Clarvoe crafts a luminous meditation on time, loss, and the enduring power of art to transform grief into grace. These poems move with the deliberate tempo their title suggests — piano piano, slowly, gently — through landscapes both intimate and archaeological, from a father's final breaths to ancient curse tablets unearthed in Turkish soil.

Since Trump’s return to office, higher education has been under attack – with schools facing pressure from the administration to curtail free speech and academic freedom, eliminate DEI policies as par...

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As Americans reel from the shocking news out of Minneapolis, college and university presidents are deciding whether and how their institutions will collaborate with ICE. For alumni, it is a stark remi...

So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

FALL 2025 ISSUE 04

Students and education workers across the US are organizing our schools towards mass non-cooperation on November 7th! Find an action on your campus!