Event Join authors Thomas Burman (Notre Dame), Brian Catlos (CU Boulder) and Mark Meyerson (U Toronto) in conversation with John Esposito on the subject of their new text book, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650, and the accompanying source anthology, Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650 (U California, […]
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Joshua Cohen talks about his hilarious but dead-serious book ‘The Netanyahus,’ which he purportedly based on a real-life visit by Benzion Netanyahu (Bibi’s dad) to Cornell University in 1960
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The adjunct novel is the new campus novel. As Maggie Doherty writes in
The Nation, its concerns are less with manners than with survival, because for the newly proletarianized adjunct-professoriate the stakes of academic work [are] extremely high rather than comically low. Although set in 1960, Joshua Cohen s new novel
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family (out next month from NYRB) nods to contemporary adjunct conditions more than once, as when its narrator, a tenure-track historian named Ruben Blum, describes the tiny slovenly pigeonhole he shares with a roster of untenured faculty and adjuncts I never got to know beyond the mugs and moldy sandwiches that lingered after their contracts expired.