Bookish marginalia

A PROGRESSIVE ON THE PRAIRIE: Several worthy book-related items have passed by recently so here’s a round up:

The 2007 Nebula Awards were announced last weekend. Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union won Best Novel.

Utopians’ bonfire of profanities

The two extremes reflect the ambivalent attitudes people have always had to burning books, says Fishburn, who works in the rare book...

Fishing in Utopia

The notion of Sweden as a modern democratic utopia has long beguiled the left and perplexed the right. Share and Enjoy: These icons...

F. Kafka, Everyman

If few readers of Kafka can be truly sorry for the existence of the works Kafka had consigned to oblivion, many regret the way Brod...

Belinda Webb: A Clockwork Apple

There’s an old idiom that states you can’t compare apples to oranges but in the case of Belinda Webb’s A Clockwork Apple (2008)...

Dylan Thomas Prize longlist

They’ve announced the 14-title strong longlist for the £60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize for young writers (under-thirties only) Share...

Who are scientists?

The July 6 Boston Globe published an enlightening interview with Steven Shapin, Harvard professor of the History of Science and author...

Romanian Literature in Translation

Romanian The Cultural Observer (Observatorul Cultural) launched...

Caution: Might Contain French

The literary space covered by English online resources is vast,...

Places Of Interest

The Believer: Interview with Tom McCarthy The Smart Set: Nobody’s...