A recent article in The Chronicle reported allegations about plagiarism by Frank Fischer (“Alan Sokal, the 1996 Hoaxer, Takes Aim at an Accused Plagiarist at Rutgers,” October 14). As scholars in the ...

David Velleman started a magazine to put the heart back into philosophy. Philosophical writing used to consist of wide-ranging, creative essays that were grounded in technique, but still accessible to ...

This year, the honor in the Sanskrit category has been conferred upon the eminent scholar Mahamahopadhyaya Swami Bhadreshdasji for his monumental work ‘Prasthanachatushtaye Brahmaghosha’. Recognized ...

An interesting essay might be written on the possession of an atheistic literary style. There is such a thing. The mark of it is that wherever anything is named or described, such words are chosen as ...

Re “The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction,” by Gerald Howard (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 20): Defending the continuing vitality of the literary novel, Mr. Howard points to ...

I n 1993, in an essay published in the Annual Review of Sociology, the sociologist Wendy Griswold suggested that “the sociology of literature was more like a field of flowers than a field of battle.” ...

For most people the post office is the irksome home to long lines, lost checks and slow service. But for American writers—and who else could be so perverse? —the post office is a godsend. If not ...