The New Roman Empire by Anthony Kaldellis, a professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, is a one-volume work, 918 pages long, that covers the entire history of Byzantium and what we know about it to date. Excluding the subtitle, the book actually avoids the words Byzantium and By...
have made explicit the suspicion that children’s literature, like that of detection or suspense, is “inferior.” They cannot detect a sufficiently long “tradition”; distinguish an adequate number of master works; or find, to use on thoughtful critic’s words, “style, sensibility, vision....
but the pay off for the reader doesn’t really happen until well into the second half when the other perspectives highlight that Andrew and Mildred are thinly disguised as characters in the novella while Andrew’s boasts sit uncomfortably alongside Mildred’s version of events. This is an elega...
are much more than this, though it is never easy to state how Dickens’s imagination transformed their many topicalities into an artisticallycoherentvision thattranscendstheir immediate historicalcontext. Similar questions are raised by his often basing fictional characters, places, and institutions on...
“There are two things that are very cool. First, it’s written by a husband-and-wife couple, one of whom is a science writer and the other is a cartoonist. They have pooled their talents to write a really engaging, fun narrative that ties together a huge array of multidisciplinary lin...
brutal" Dikran make uneasy allies but are determined to outmaneuver the others and save Lexy. Berney (Whiplash River;The Long and Faraway Gone) propelsDouble Barrel Bluffwith fully realized supporting characters, a vivid depiction of Cambodia, and action that enhances the story. Berney tackles his...
but the only strikingly admirable human behavior is the loyalty among the young men. They have the kind of ties that are created in all one-generation masculine cultures like soldiers at war, or the boys raised separate from their mothers and sisters to become radical jihadists– or, of cours...
The illustrations are a great piece of art which drags the attention of kids and sends out a strong message without preaching them that every pair of eyes see the world in their own perspective and everyone are right in their own way. The words are simple and repetitive. So children come ...
By August, they are able to travel to the Savoy for a holiday and Antelme is able to read a newspaper: “Hiroshima is perhaps the first thing outside his own life that he see.” Antelme and Duras did divorce and Mascolo became the second of three husbands. Antelme wrote a memoir of...
at Deuchardraws the reader/viewer into two different literacies but with a continuity between them that does not yet exist between reading a print book and reading its ebook version. Are hand and eye more allied when processing the visual whether on paper or screen than when processing words?