Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.29.14

Philip Roth, Le Guin Take on Amazon
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-09-29

A Museum Merger That Seems Sensible
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-09-29

What have the Romans ever done for us?
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-09-28

Telling the World What Dance Means, 21st Century Style
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-09-28

Do You Think You Know Gene Kelly?
AJBlog: Fresh Pencil | Published 2014-09-29

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Author David Mitchell Claims A Bitter Writer In His New Book Is Himself, But Everyone Else Thinks It’s Martin Amis

“Either the monster in his mirror has led him on a dangerous journey he didn’t realise he was taking (though it’s hard to believe no editor would have pointed it out to him), or he’s belatedly woken up to the fact that taking a pop at his literary elders is not necessarily the smartest career move.”

The Most Unusual College President In America

“Over the course of nearly forty years, [Leon] Botstein – a historian, writer, and conductor – has built Bard in his own polymath image,” revamping the curriculum, packing the faculty with well-known intellectuals, founding alternative high schools, operating degree programs in prisons … Everything but running sports programs and hitting alumni up for money, the way normal college presidents do.