the bookshelf as memory theater
From a wonderful essay by Nathan Schneider: What concerns me about the literary apocalypse that everybody now...
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From a wonderful essay by Nathan Schneider: What concerns me about the literary apocalypse that everybody now...
Ruth Franklin in The New Republic: At one panel I attended, titled “The Next Decade in Book Culture,” Nicholas...
Here’s a wonderful interview — alas, too brief — with Alberto Manguel. Some choice bits: I don’t think the...
Charlie Stross asks an interesting question: “Why are novels (the prevailing form of fictional entertainment on...
Let me return to my previous comments on Jason Kottke’s distinction between old and new forms of reviewing, and to...
I wish people would stop saying things like this: Books are changing from physical to virtual objects. . . . The...
A Working Library says something very true very eloquently: On the page, the rhythm of the text emerges from both the...