FIELD NOTES BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS
INSIDE PUBLISHING
The Case for Bardolatry Black Like Me
The Second Sex and the Dismal Science
Advertisements for Myself HYPOTHESES
Professor vibrator/Academia's funniest ad campaign/A college president clones his dog, and more
The Home
Adorno's children/The fungus in history/Sociology's greatest hits
Harold Bloom's bold, idiosyncratic new book challenges the assumptions of today's Shakespeare scholars. With characteristic extravagance, the author of The Western Canon declares that the best critical approach to the bard is rapture. Should we bury Bloom, or praise him?
BY WILLIAM W. KERRIGAN
Since the early 1970s, Adrian Piper's conceptual art has made bold statements about race, racism, and the ambiguities of racial identity. But now that the art world has finally caught up with her, the Wellesley philosopher is moving on.
BY ADAM SHATZ
Is the study of Homo economicus notbing but economics by men, for men, and about men? Feminist economists are saying exactly that. If only they could get the high priests of the profession to listen.
BY MICHAEL STEINBERGER
As universities embrace the Internet, faculty members are building their own Web sites. These sites often raise academic self-display to the level of performance art.
BY VICKI HSUEH
Jim Holt asks, Is death necessary?
