Submissions The Digital Review seeks to showcase personal, artistic and academic forms of born-digital essay writing. Submitted essays may be exploratory, provocative, critical and/or polemical takes

Seven months in, one thing is clear: schools can’t bridge the "digital divide" on their own.

On the power and privilege of the written word in the Middle Ages.

It exported a literature of individualism and domesticity — not one of solidarity and big ideas.

To bring back memories of your schooldays, there's nothing quite like the sight of your old exercise books. This holds true whether you went to school in Ghana in the 2010s, Italy in the 90s, France in the 80s, China in the 70s, Japan in the 60s, or India in the 50s.

Has a desire to keep the coronavirus out of schools put children’s long-term well-being at stake?

Utopia-minded tech gurus promise they’ll solve all of academe’s problems. They won’t.

In San Francisco, Becca Andrews pulled the filing for a 1976 Supreme Court decision that granted abortion providers the power to sue for their patients’ well-being. In Chicago, Michael O’Loughlin headed to an archive to pore over records documenting the lives of gay Catholics during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s. And in […]

I still can’t decide whether I’ve retired or just resigned, or am in fact redundant and unemployed. I’m undeniably...