By John Warner. Ah, the perennial problem: why do we assign term papers? (Or research papers, if that’s what you call them.) The battle that has been fought and forgotten and fought again since at least 1982, and probably longer. More...

By John Warner. In a recent interview, Andrew Sullivan said his one piece of advice to young writers is to avoid Twitter. “Twitter is the enemy of thought,” he declared. More...

By John Warner. I was surprised by last week’s news that the editor of the Paris Review resigned from his position in the midst of an internal investigation concerning alleged inappropriate behavior towards female staffers and contributors. More...

By John Warner. We may need to start coming to grips with the possibility that Canadian literary treasure Margaret Atwood has been sent from the future. More...

By John Warner. With class, I always think about what I'm privileging and why.
As an audience member, there’s two types of lectures I can get into. More...

By John Warner. There's always ideologies at work when we make pedagogical choices. More...

By John Warner. The great “laptops in class” debate flared yet again over the holiday weekend following the publication of a New York Times op-ed by Prof. Susan Dynarski of the University of Michigan who has decided to “generally ban electronics, including laptops, in my classes and research seminars,” (with a few exceptions). More...

By John Warner. A week ago Monday I posted a kind of lament over the person I used to be and the path I once desired – professor of creative writing – and how I’d “failed” to achieve that goal. More...