Writing books can be the most rewarding thing you ever do in an academic or public policy career. Many people compare writing a book to raising children. I wouldn't go quite that far, and I do not ...

Rabiner, a New Yorker whose conversational style is a tsunami of ideas and insights, has held editorial positions at Random House, Oxford University Press, Pantheon, and Basic Books.

All good pieces of academic writing should have an introduction, and book reviews are no exception. Open with a general description of the topic and/or problem addressed by the work in question. Think ...

While in a master’s program in English, Mary Norris started reading The New Yorker and realized that academe was not for her. She jumped off the academic hamster wheel and entered an alt-ac ...

In January, Karin Wulf, a history professor at William and Mary, wrote an installment for her blog, Vast Early America, that promised to teach “How to Gut a (Scholarly) Book in 5 Almost-easy ...

If academic writing is to become expansive again, academia will probably have to expand first. Photograph by Martine Franck/Magnum. Joshua Rothman , a staff writer, authors the weekly column Open ...

An Oxford academic has combined her decades-old passion for football with her dream to publish a book by writing about the the history of the… Public notices Newsletters ...

All this said, to me a book is the writing, so it’s sort of like asking, “Can great music sound bad?” And the answer is, of course, yes. Because I’m a human being with particular tastes.