The Thing of the Year
For many Decembers now I have looked forward with great anticipation to John Wilson’s list of his favorite books...
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open letter to Adam Roberts on the Protocols of the Elders of the Internet
This started as a reply to a comment Adam made on my previous post. But then it underwent gigantism. Adam, I see these...
Bethany
In yesterday’s post on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy I quoted Adam Roberts commenting on the...
the asymptote of utopia
I just re-read Kim Stanley Robinson’s magnificent Mars trilogy — about which I hope to teach a class someday —...
some things about The Thing Itself
I had a really wonderful time in Cambridge the other night talking with Adam Roberts, Francis Spufford, and Rowan...
Virgil and adversarial subtlety
So, back to Virgil … (Sorry about the spelling, Professor Roberts.) What do we know about Virgil’s reputation...
Virgil and adversary culture
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Adam Roberts has been blogging about the Aeneid, prompted by his reading of Seamus...
Roberts; the Bruce
In a post this morning on Seamus Heaney’s fragmentary translation of the Aeneid, my friend Adam Roberts...
organizing the sensorium
In his extraordinary book The Presence of the Word (1967), Walter Ong wrote, Growing up, assimilating the wisdom of the...
on Adam Roberts’s Bête
This is a book about the difference between being a butcher and being a murderer, if there is a difference This is a...