Confessions of a recovering grad student
Early in Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis’s brilliant satire of academic life, the struggling history professor James Dixon reflects with grim selfr-evulsion on an article he’s recently authored, “The Economic Influence of Developments in Shipbuilding Techniques, 1450 to 1485.” “It was the perfect title,” he ruefully observes, “in that it crystallized the article’s niggling mindlessness, its […]