“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”

Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...

The question of peripheral modernism is a question riddled with anxieties. Anxieties about competence, originality, and elitism, determinedly mediated by the seductions of institutional recognition…

Several companies tied to the data center industry have delayed their initial public offerings amid the increasing public backlash to these energy guzzling facilities.

In the eastern city of Xalapa, what started as a joke among friends over two decades ago has become a vibrant annual tradition that highlights creativity and absurdity with melons.

The Oscar-winning writer returns to Facebook with “The Social Reckoning”— and surprises us with the revelation of why he is so drawn to uplift and romance.

Teaching Without Computers Bradley J. Fest   In a moment, I am going to talk about despair. But let me be clear: What I have to say in the following is not about frustration, burnout, or stress; it is...

Teaching Without Computers Bradley J. Fest   In a moment, I am going to talk about despair. But let me be clear: What I have to say in the following is not about frustration, burnout, or stress; it is...

by Tamara L. Mitchell University of Pittsburgh Press The novel emerged in lockstep with the nation-state, serving as the cultural counterpart to political form in the modern era. However, these dyn…

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

Patricio Guzmán, master Chilean documentarian whose films gave shape to the memory and political conscience of Latin

Patricio Guzmán, master Chilean documentarian whose films gave shape to the memory and political conscience of Latin

In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.

The question of peripheral modernism is a question riddled with anxieties. Anxieties about competence, originality, and elitism, determinedly mediated by the seductions of institutional recognition…

Why open that door?

We begin in medias res, along a path traveled by a landowner. In the opening pages of Rómulo Gallegos’s landmark 1929 novel Doña Bárbara, the novel’s protagonist, Santos Luzardo, travels toward his…

This North American tipping culture really annoys me. How businesses fired the staff, handed me the scanner and still expected a tip

August 31, 2026 By: Pavel Andrade

This essay examines José Agustín’s novel Se está haciendo tarde (final en laguna) (1973) as a work that gives spatial form to the collapse of the Mexican state’s postwar program of autonomous indus…

All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...

Your Guide to Tristram Shandy 2026

In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to—and...

A foundational essay of class struggle published in English for the first timeConsidered one of the most important intellectuals in Latin American social tho...

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]