Critical Mass

At the group blog Crooked Timber, a number of writers, including Michael Bérubé, Russell Jacoby, and NBCC board member Scott McLemee, recently conducted an on-line seminar on the occasion of

I haven’t been clocking the reviews section of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. I guess that will have to change, though. Book SA notes that the Nobel Laureate

NBCC member Anis Shivani is a fiction writer, poet, and critic in Houston, Texas. In this guest post, which originally appeared at Huffington Post, he discusses Chris Anderson’s Free: The

This summer I’ve been doing something I’ve always wanted to do, which is to listen to Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on my iPod. I’ve read lots

Like other busy people I tend to read more during the summer, though rarely do I take on one big project (every Shax play, all of Musil’s The Man Without