Notes on Stefan Zweig's "The Post Office Girl", assimilation, and shifting fortunes.
Books
Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the passing of a year.
A collaborative post by Chris and Burt Likko, telling the story of Zora Neale Hurston, an American...
Chris gets discombobulated. In space.
Sandman Bookclub: The Kindly Ones, Pts. 4 and 5
Sandman Bookclub: The Kindly Ones, Pts. 2 and 3
Tonight, Mike recaps the Prologue to and Part One of The Kindly Ones.
Let’s get right down to business. Paul Krugman comes out swinging in the New York Review of...
Last week I got an email from reader Karen, who asked if I would be willing to...
Reviewing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner’s Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts...
As many of you know, this week’s Thursday Night Bar Fight was a Survivor-like game where readers...
In the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri pleads with Barnes & Noble not to marginalize itself, with more effectiveness and...
Just a quick note to remind everyone we’ll be starting our Beowulf-Grendel book club tomorrow. We’ll be...
Sitting in a Barnes and Noble cafe at the start of January, I read: What is astonishing...
Starting the week after next, the League will be hosting the Beowulf & Grendel Book Club*. Everyone...
At the end of every term for at least the last half-dozen years, I’ve had to take...
My dad foisted Dandelion Wine on me when I was young and still homeschooled. It was to be,...
For the past few months I have been bitching to friends and family that I can’t find...
“Do we need stories?” asks Tim Parks. An interesting question. And an important one. But not a matter...
Matthew 25:31-46 – “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with...
