2022. Inventing the Alphabet : The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Not just another in the long line of histories of the alphabet, rather it explores “Who knew what when about the alphabet?” How did the way they knew it affect how...
Flying Schoolis a book of beautifully crafted poems about the contrivances by which we attempt to enrich or repair our lives. One dominant image is flight and, more specifically, parachutes – reflecting an aspiration to come to terms with our hardest challenges, including the reality of death....
Howard Wong and Keith Grachow talked about who they are and what they do, their Dead to Us book they worked on, the starting of Toronto Comics anthology and why, how to make a comic Canadian and if that's a good or bad thing, thinking about What If's and thinking on where that wo...
Davison wrote several novels, but his best known is probablyMan-shy(1931), which won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Featuring a red heifer, it was my introduction to Davison in my first year of high school in the 1960s.Dusty(1946) is also about an animal – this time a ...
Either, as it gathers, the sky cranes flee before it in the valley’s depths; or the heifer looks up to heaven, and with open nostrils snuffs the breeze, or the twittering swallow flits round the pools, and in the mud the frogs croak their immemorial plaint. Often, too, the ant, ...
Although other novelists have made animals their principal characters and drawn them realistically, Davison is the first to make a serious attempt to get inside their minds. The red heifer and the mob of wild cattle to which she belongs stand for the spirit of freedom and dogged, untameable ...
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A sacrifice of two heifers. Detail from a fresco in the Crypt of St. Magnus, St. Mary Cathedral, Anagni, Italy, 13th century. (Courtesy of De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images.) The problem with this theory is that the Rabbis cannot be classified as anti- or post...
A healthy heifer calf born to red cow soon after midnight. All well. An excellent day. 21 July —Rode to Muellers'. Exchanged one jar honeycomb for leather bridle in poor repair (but can be mended). Home well after dark,in consequence of seeing a twilight hatch rising upon the pond ...
“I’m in shock at the number.” Daphne refused to state the actual number. “Shock without any baseline of knowledge. I don’t know what I should weigh. Last night, watching those men and women being weighed like heifers at market, I wanted to cry.” ...