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  • Reading: “Not for Profit,” Part One

    Recently, I bought a copy of Martha Nussbaum’s relatively new book, Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, as an echo-chamber kind of not-so-guilty pleasure.…

  • You’ve Got a Point, Mr. Murray

    As a teacher of creative writing and English, I constantly question my decisions about what to have my students read. Do they really need to read the…

  • Arts & Humanities for Young People

    As an arts and humanities teacher, I was glad to read this article, “An art-felt gesture” by 16-year-old Zulmarie Nazario, which was published about a month…

  • Choosing “Jim Crow and Me”

    When I initially proposed a Student Readers Group for the Alabama Book Festival at the first planning meeting of the year in August 2011, most…