Dr. Metablog

Elihu Hessel Pearlman was born in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn on March 11, 1939, the third of four children of Lilly Usilewski (later Lillian Green) and Emanuel Pearlman.

Marcia Bjornerud, Reading the Rocks; Jeremy Braddock, Collecting as Modernist Practice; William Shakespeare, Pericles; Bill Schutt, Bite; William T.

From the “new non-fiction” shelf of the Boulder Public Libary, I borrowed On Being Jewish Now (2024).

I read George Hutchinson's Facing the Abyss, a report on the culture of the 1940.

Chaucer's Pardoner, some will remember, has long blonde hair and speaks in a high treble voice.

After struggling through a run of mysterious and puzzling works, I'm cheered to discover a book written by Cornell English faculty member that I could read with pleasure from beginning to end.

Every once in a while, I experience something that I call a "cultural convergence" — perhaps an event reported in a daily newspaper that closely resembles something on the very page of the novel that I happen to be reading.

Can it possibly be true that the universe as we know it is becoming larger and larger?

I first encountered the word "text" — as did everyone else of my cohort — as the first component of "textbook."

Elisha Cohn is an associate professor in Cornell's Department of Literatures in English.

Vivian de St.