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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for connoisseurs only
Ruth Franklin in The New Republic: At one panel I attended, titled “The Next Decade in Book Culture,” Nicholas...
books as home
Here’s a wonderful interview — alas, too brief — with Alberto Manguel. Some choice bits: I don’t think the...
the length of texts
Charlie Stross asks an interesting question: “Why are novels (the prevailing form of fictional entertainment on...
the disembodied reviewer?
Let me return to my previous comments on Jason Kottke’s distinction between old and new forms of reviewing, and to...
stop it. just stop it.
I wish people would stop saying things like this: Books are changing from physical to virtual objects. . . . The...
the form of the book
A Working Library says something very true very eloquently: On the page, the rhythm of the text emerges from both the...