speak, memory
Evan Maloney writes thoughtfully about how inconsistent our memories of books can be. “Are our memories of books...
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righting an old wrong?
When I was six or seven years old I started reading my father’s books, all of which were paperback novels, and almost...
the best of both worlds
Josef Beery has done well by his iPod Touch: he’s using it as a book reader and only as a book reader, with a...
taste-testing literary style
Nicholas Lezard looks at a new scientific “formula” that can, it is claimed, identify a given author’s stylistic...
year-end reading report
I read more books this year than I have in quite a while, but I can’t say that anything truly life-changing...
Bookfuturism
Bookfuturism is “mapping the future of the book.” Looks very cool — please check it out.
those darn screens again
As I have commented on several occasions, errors like the ones noted in my previous post often occur because people are...
delusions of originality
James Higgs writes: When I buy a book, I’m buying a physical, real world object that has properties that can be...
the tired writer
Two years ago, soon after the release of her novel The Maytrees, Annie Dillard said — it wasn’t a formal...
gliding over
I’ve made it clear that I think Edward Tufte is great, but I can’t help but smile at this comment on his use of...