Nora Caplan-Bricker
Is Online Test-Monitoring Here to Stay?
Despite students’ complaints and the coming return to in-person learning, Proctorio and its rivals are betting on a lucrative future.
What Do Colleges Owe Their Most Vulnerable Students?
Most discussion of college students has revolved around the risks they pose to others. But many are on campus because they have nowhere else to go.
In the Gendered Economy, Women Are Perpetual Debtors
Kate Manne’s “Entitled” speaks to a moment that she could not have foreseen.
The Depression-Era Book That Wanted to Cancel the Rent
“Modern Housing,” by Catherine Bauer, argued—as many activists do today—that a decent home should be seen as a public utility and a basic right.
Curtis Sittenfeld’s “Rodham” Offers the Catharsis of Uncomplicated Regret
The novel imagines a Hillary Clinton who manages to avoid most of the controversy that clings to her real-life counterpart.
An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction
A new group biography establishes Dorothy L. Sayers’s “Gaudy Night” as a forerunner of works by Gillian Flynn and Tana French.
The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo
Evidence of the social-media movement should be collected, both because it matters and because it could disappear. But archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.
Is Online Test-Monitoring Here to Stay?
Despite students’ complaints and the coming return to in-person learning, Proctorio and its rivals are betting on a lucrative future.
What Do Colleges Owe Their Most Vulnerable Students?
Most discussion of college students has revolved around the risks they pose to others. But many are on campus because they have nowhere else to go.
In the Gendered Economy, Women Are Perpetual Debtors
Kate Manne’s “Entitled” speaks to a moment that she could not have foreseen.
The Depression-Era Book That Wanted to Cancel the Rent
“Modern Housing,” by Catherine Bauer, argued—as many activists do today—that a decent home should be seen as a public utility and a basic right.
Curtis Sittenfeld’s “Rodham” Offers the Catharsis of Uncomplicated Regret
The novel imagines a Hillary Clinton who manages to avoid most of the controversy that clings to her real-life counterpart.
An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction
A new group biography establishes Dorothy L. Sayers’s “Gaudy Night” as a forerunner of works by Gillian Flynn and Tana French.
The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo
Evidence of the social-media movement should be collected, both because it matters and because it could disappear. But archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.