What are you reading at the moment? I’d love to know I may not be very speedy replying to comments this week as our broadband is down and apparently is likely to be for at least a couple of days. I don’t have a lot of data left to use so I’m potentially going to be intern...
What are you reading at the moment? I’d love to know I may not be very speedy replying to comments this week as our broadband is down and apparently is likely to be for at least a couple of days. I don’t have a lot of data left to use so I’m potentially going to be intern...
Literary companion: how Edmund Wilson made the labor of criticism into an art.(BOOKS)(Critical essay)Hitchens, Christopher
The essay “Going Over the Books” may have inspired Alden’s curation of ‘The Library of Babel” exhibition. The essays are not entirely the point of having The Book Maker’s Desire in the Books On Books Collection. What completes the point is the cover design. The object on the book...
It’s best to “go with the flow” — to unravel the explosions of sentences, phrases and words on the page and follow their imaginative leaps. For example, on the page where Aristotle refers to the causes of poetry, that phrase “deep in our nature” leads to the wordplay of “stoch...
InFuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s “pet boom.” Blurring the binary between human and nonhuman, Grillo draws on Japanese science fiction, horror, guide-dog stories, and a notorious essay on euthanas...
Best American Poetry 2008, The Wright, Charles & Lehman, David, eds. 4/6/2010 P Idler's Companion, The Hodgkinson, Tom & De Abaitua, Matthew, eds. 4/4/2010 NF Maigret and the Man on the Bench Simenon, Georges 4/1/2010 F American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry Swensen,...
They often contain dramatic romantic themes and complex emotional hurdles—the best young adult romances don’t oversimplify the feelings and trials that come along with falling in love for the first time. Here are some of the best. Love YA? Here’s our essential reading list....
Books are portals to worlds beyond our imagination. They are repositories of knowledge, tales of adventure, and mirrors reflecting our innermost thoughts and desires. From the earliest days of civilization, books have been a constant companion, guiding us through the maze of life and expanding our...
References to Steinbeck are relatively rare in the books for which Hitchens, who died in 2011, is best remembered. A passage from “The Ballad of Route 66,” an essay written in Steinbeck’s centennial year of 2002, shows why that’s a shame. Crediting Steinbeck for being the first to ...