Last week I got an email from reader Karen, who asked if I would be willing to...
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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...
While it is true that I stole both Brave New World and Flowers for Algernon from the...
Big, big, big hat tip to Erik who sent me an email today about the continuing breaking...
A friend pointed me to this op-ed by Richard Russo in the New York Times about Amazon’s...
Riffing off of my Atlantic piece, fantasy author R. Scott Bakker writes: According to common wisdom, genre...
So I’m trying to figure out how to make Amazon Associates work with the League. A number...
~by RTod Borders has announced that it is closing it’s doors and beginning liquidation; this of...
I’m going to write a few posts about Harry Potter in anticipation of seeing the latest, and...
I’m going to write a few posts about Harry Potter in anticipation of seeing the latest, and...