The game's afoot (again). Thanks to Stanford's "Discovering Sherlock Holmes" project, readers can sign up to receive several Sherlock Holmes stories in weekly installments that are facsimilies of the original Strand magazine versions. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
Journalism
“Enduring Love”
In Ana Castillo's novel Watercolor Women/Opaque Men, the life of a Chicana single mom could be verse. It could also be better. Read More at The Washington Post »
“The Fragmentation of Literary Theory”
Is Theory with a capital T dead or more alive than ever? I asked some literature professors. Here's what they said. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Scholar Concedes ‘Terrible Error’ in Not Attributing Lines From an Earlier Work”
Alabama writer Brad Vice borrowed" chunks of Carl Carmer's 1934 book Stars Fell on Alabama for his story collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, only he failed to cite his (copyrighted) source. Was it naivete, literary homage or plagiarism?" Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Harvard Researcher Probes the Minds of Alien Abductees”
If aliens aren't really abducting earthlings, why do so many people have such vivid memories of close encounters? A psychiatric researcher investigates. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
