German Culture Minister Monika Grütters promised government financial help to cultural institutions and artists whose livelihoods are threatened by the coronavirus as theatres and concert halls close and dwindling numbers of people attend events and museums. – The Art Newspaper
‘Post-Traumatic Literature’ Is What We Really Need To Get At The Truth(s) Of #MeToo
Lili Loofbourow: “We don’t have much of a vocabulary for what happens in a victim’s life after the painful past has been excavated. … What is the situation of survivors who saw the injury proven and exposed — and maybe even punished — and saw, also, that nothing much changed? I am curious about their vision of things. I want to know how they think things should be. In nonfiction, we have [Chanel Miller’s] Know My Name. In fiction, we have books like Miriam Toews’s Women Talking and Rachel Cline’s The Question Authority.” – The New York Review of Books
Betrayal Of Education: America’s College Adjunct Crisis
According to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, 25 percent of part-time faculty nationally rely on public assistance programs. In 1969, 78 percent of instructional staff at US institutions of higher education were tenured or on the tenure track; today, after decades of institutional expansion amid stagnant or dwindling budgets, the figure is 33 percent. More than one million workers now serve as nonpermanent faculty in the US, constituting 50 percent of the instructional workforce at public Ph.D.-granting institutions, 56 percent at public masters degree–granting institutions, 62 percent at public bachelors degree–granting institutions, 83 percent at public community colleges, and 93 percent at for-profit institutions. – New York Review of Books