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Historical Materialism 2016

January 21, 2016 by Scott McLemee Leave a Comment

It's not complete, but I've received a list of things scheduled to run in the journal Historical Materialism in 2016 and it's impressive. Here it is: … [Read more...]

Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Half-Baked Idea

January 21, 2016 by Scott McLemee 1 Comment

Celebrate it or hate it as you will, Wikipedia has metamorphosed from its beginnings as a gangly cultural interloper into the de facto reference work of first resort..... My column from last week on Wikipedia's 15th birthday. And in one of the Half-Baked Ideas to Save the World (is that trademarked?) offered at the Random Nerds blogazine, editor-in-chief Bryce Rudow makes the case for "A Wiki … [Read more...]

Graphic nonfiction novels

January 3, 2016 by Scott McLemee 1 Comment

Kent Worcester's article "The Graphics Juggernaut," posted last month at the website of New Politics magazine, looks at Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg by Kate Evans (Verso) and three other recent political "titles aimed at the words-and-pictures market" -- which is probably a more serviceable description than calling them "graphic nonfiction novels," come to think of it. Among the … [Read more...]

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Scott McLemee writes the weekly column Intellectual Affairs for Inside Higher Ed and is part of the editorial staff for Jacobin magazine.

From 1995 until 2001, he was contributing editor for Lingua Franca. Between 2001 and 2005, he covered scholarship in the humanities as senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has served on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and in 2004 received the NBCC's award for excellence in reviewing.

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