"[The Paris Review has a] column Feminize Your Canon [that] explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors."—Feminize Your Canon
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How to Read Big Books
"...it is a principal task of a successful modern university to teach people how to read [big, difficult, flawed, incredibly insightful, genius books]. Indeed, it might be said that one of the few key competencies we here at the university have to teach—our counterpart or the medieval triad of rhetoric, logic, grammar and then quadriad … Continue reading How to Read Big Books
Open Syllabus Project, Visualized
"A new interactive visualization from Open Syllabus turns this trove of data into a color-coded stippling of different-sized dots, each one representing a particular text. Float over each dot and a box appears in the corner of the screen, showing the number of syllabi that have assigned the text, and a link to a profile … Continue reading Open Syllabus Project, Visualized
