Why I Kicked Technology Out of My Classroom
And joined a number of my colleagues in doing so
August 2026
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
a story of lost poets
The ten best rom-coms (that might not be rom-coms)
Love is the greatest story ever told.
bankside / tate modern / tracey emin
no comment
Woman of Letters meetup, featuring Henry Begler, in SF (Sept 29)
You are cordially invited to the first of what I’m hoping will be a regular Woman of Letters event series in San Francisco, where I invite interesting speakers to discuss their relationship to books.
Teaching the Ocean to Swim
Why LLMs keep failing their Big Five personality tests
Are Languages Finished?
(English as an International Language May Well Be)
Market Nights
Menace in Chicago.
The Way We Live Now
"a fine critic, a sharp thinker, just look at her hair"
Authorship After the Internet
Aarthi Vadde's We the Platform
These Fragments Zwei
even defeat is not death for an idea