a technological tale for Reformation Day
What I have been calling the technological history of modernity is in part a story about the power of recognizing how...
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commuters and tourists, pedestrians and pilgrims
My good friend and former colleague Richard Gibson has recently started a blog on books and textuality and reading and...
vandalism and value
I can’t count the number of times over the years I have shaken my fist — usually metaphorically — at people...
Christianity and the Book
Next academic year I will be leading a faculty seminar here at Wheaton on Christianity and the Book: Histories and...
and while I’m being grumpy
Let’s fact-check our meditations on the past and future of reading, okay? No one knows where all this will end up,...
first and last
Martyn Lyons, from an essay on “New Readers in the NIneteenth Century: Women, Children, Workers”: By the...
resisting print
I’m reading and enjoying Andrew Pettegree’s The Book in the Renaissance, and as I move along I can’t stop...
my new companion
My dear friend John Wilson, editor of Books & Culture — which you should be subscribing to, by the way — called...