The back-room Walter Benjamin: The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and ... Capital New York A 31-year-old doctoral candidate at Columbia's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Chaudhary conceived of the school in 2011 as a way to make liberal arts education and research more accessible to those outside the academy.
The Library of Utopia Technology Review (subscription) Larry Page isn't known for his literary sensibility, but he does like to think big. In 2002, the Google cofounder decided that it was time for his young company to scan all the world's books into its database. If printed texts weren't brought online, ...