The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.

- Louis Menand

The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has …

- Louis Menand

One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of wha…

- Louis Menand

Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a…

- Louis Menand

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not ma…

- Louis Menand

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they …

- Louis Menand

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version …

- Louis Menand

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

- Louis Menand

It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in…

- Louis Menand