Academic DESTINATIONS
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A Scholar's Own City
Alice Kaplan explores the far reaches of Paris.
- New rhythms and resources in the Paris suburbs
- Paris, When You Get There: Cafes, restaurants, hotels, and more
- Paris by bicycle?
Academic PASSIONS
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Wading Into Literature
For James Barilla, fly-fishing is a way to temporarily escape concerns about human existence.
Henry Jenkins III (Photograph by Stu Rosner)
Academic CAUSES
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'Learning From Below'
Gayatri Spivak calls the gap between middle-class schools and those for the poor "an absolute and accepted divide, the consolidation of continuing class apartheid" in India.
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Academic INTELLIGENCE
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Indulgences: Vegas, Yoga Toes, Elmore Leonard, and more
Favorites: Jazz albums, eating spots around the world, shrinks in films
Ask the Expert: Does Tenure Make Evolutionary Sense?
Frump & Circumstance: An interview with fashion guru Tim Gunn
Academic FINANCES
Making Do in Academe
The shrinking financial rewards of faculty jobs are putting a squeeze on some young professors, especially in areas where the cost of living is high-- and particularly when they aspire to keep up with their fellow professionals in other fields.
Academic CONVERSATION
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'The Sensual Years'
What's a single woman over 50 to do about sex? Pepper Schwartz, a leading sociologist who teaches at the U. of Washington, answers her own question in her new book.
Academic TASTES
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Wine and Weather
Antonio J. Busalacchi looks at what vineyards and their centuries of records say about global warming — and the future of wine-making.
'It Just Tastes Good'
Patrick Fields is an expert in all things chocolate and teaches an adult-education course on the subject.
Academic SPACES
![Ifeanyi Menkiti by Richard Howard](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090116033912im_/http://chronicle.com/photos/v54/i03/menkiti.jpg)
Poetry for Sale
Ifeanyi Menkiti is the new owner of the Grolier Poetry Bookshop, an 80-year-old institution in Harvard Square..