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The NYU GA Strike,
American & Cultural Studies,
& Remembering Fred Pfeil
ns 65-66 | Spring 2006
 In this number S. Asad Raza, a doctoral candidate in English, and Carl Levin, the attorney for the GA union at NYU, report on the NYU graduate student assistants' strike and its aftermath. Also featured are interviews with Samuel Delany, Adolph Reed, Jr., Donald Pease, and Janice Radway. We also remember our colleague Fred Pfeil, a mainstay of the minnesota review. Over the past twenty-five years, he served as editor, fiction editor, and a key advisor.
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Remembering Fred Pfeil
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News | 09.07.2006
Michael Bérubé's latest book, What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education, has been published by W. W. Norton & Company. In it, Bérubé "offers a definitive rebuttal to conservative activists' most incendiary claims about American universities."
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News | 07.23.2006
Student loans, for more than half those attending college, are the new paradigm of college funding. Consequently, student debt is, or will soon be, the new paradigm of early to middle adult life. Gone are the days when the state university was as cheap as a laptop and was considered a right, like secondary education. Now higher education is, like most social services, a largely privatized venture, and loans are the chief way that a majority of individuals pay for it.
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MR BOOKS
Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.
Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.
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