Janet Mcnew

The charge that academic radicals are politicizing higher education has recently kept the covers of national magazines busy with dramatic headlines and bright graphics. Within a half year of each other The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Y [...]

Women and Higher Education in American History: Essays from the Mount Holyoke College Sesquicentennial Symposia, edited by John Mack Faragher and Florence Howe. Norton. $19.95. Throughout my 20 years as student and teacher in higher education, a v [...]

The Best American Short Stories 1980. Edited by Stanley Elkin with Shannon Ravenel. Houghton Mifflin. $12.95. Why do short stories seem more revealingly "contemporary" than other literary forms? Especially when they are collected for an annual ant [...]