In the Middle

[illustration: memorials] by J J Cohen Apropos to a lively discussion that has come to focus on education jobs , as well as to this recent p...

by J J Cohen We have an ancient tradition at In the Middle of bringing to the occasional Friday more frivil and festivousness than is our q...

by Mary Kate Hurley [illustration from the Lindisfarne Gospels -- thank you, BBC!] Within a few hours of it being posted on the Valve last ...

[illustration: my current Facebook profile picture, a sourpuss expression that offers a tiny window to my ugly soul. Plus, my hair is out of...

[illustration: a projector supported by The Flowering of the Middle Ages and The Faerie Queene , a talk supported by more collaborators th...

[illustration: utterly flavorless coconut custard dessert consumed in an Indian restaurant at 6th and 1st. I am still wondering what gave th...

by EILEEN JOY Only one of the above things is true, and we leave you to guess which, but what we will say is that after Jeffrey's beaut...

by J J Cohen About to embark upon my frigid walk to the Metro station , thence to be conveyed via subway, train, and subway again to NYU. Al...

by J J Cohen So I've just discovered that a sports drink that comes in a rainbow of unnatural colors is citing Monty Python in its recen...

by J J Cohen So I taught Beowulf again, this time in an introductory level course with ninety students. As I prepped for the class I tried ...

by J J Cohen [illustration: my Sunday morning reading. Alex goes to Hebrew school, I go to the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf in sear...

by J J Cohen All monks, please don your Slankets : Arizona State University may need an as yet undetermined number of you. Or so says John K...

by KARL STEEL Thanks to a heads-up from my Brooklyn College colleague Michael Meagher, here's something for medievalists and particular...

by KARL STEEL Matthew Gabriele offered an excellent suggestion in my post below : to learn more about horses being cursed, learn whether or...

by KARL STEEL Having astonished myself by completing my to-do list before 10pm on two successive days, I've been going through the stack...