VULPES LIBRIS: The main criterion for being shelved in Literature, I discovered, was being dead. Not merely the long-dead, like Austen and Dickens and Eliot and Hardy – survivors of the test of centuries – but the more recently deceased were located here, too.
The two extremes reflect the ambivalent attitudes people have always had to burning books, says Fishburn, who works in the rare book...
Fishing in UtopiaThe notion of Sweden as a modern democratic utopia has long beguiled the left and perplexed the right. Share and Enjoy: These icons...
F. Kafka, EverymanIf few readers of Kafka can be truly sorry for the existence of the works Kafka had consigned to oblivion, many regret the way Brod...
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 longlistThey’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 The Cultural Observer (Observatorul Cultural) launched...
Caution: Might Contain FrenchThe literary space covered by English online resources is vast,...
Places Of InterestThe Believer: Interview with Tom McCarthy The Smart Set: Nobody’s...
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