Arts & Culture

Yet again, dystopian film is all the rage. This is certainly not the only time in which dystopias have held sway. But never before has the genre been so lucrative. The Maze Runner, The Divergent Series, and...

Donald Barclay, University of California, Merced The print-format scholarly book, a bulwark of academia’s publish-or-perish culture, is an endangered species. The market that has sustained it over the...

In Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape, Lauret Savoy takes readers on a journey through American landscapes as she strives to uncover clues about her personal, complex ancestry. Descended...

Adriana's piece is the winner of our 2015 Academic Contest.  Esther Charabati, coordinator of the oldest café-philo in Mexico City, defines café-philo as a space built on ideas, opinions, and doubts of...

Last month US News and World Report’s infamous college rankings were released. For the second year in a row Princeton took the number one slot. “That’s probably because they were the first one of the...

Since 1982, over 11,000 books have been challenged by individuals seeking to have them banned from schools or libraries. In the library world, access to information is a human right, not to be tampered with...

Is social media ruining our kids? How much internet activity is too much? What do FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), sexting, and selfies mean for teens? To answer these and other questions, Yalda T. Uhls wrote Media...