quantity and quality revisited
It would seem that Steven Johnson isn’t the only advocate of the quantity-trumps-quality defense of online life....
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It would seem that Steven Johnson isn’t the only advocate of the quantity-trumps-quality defense of online life....
I have mentioned elsewhere that the best work of history I have read in a long, long time is Keith Thomas’s The...
This week I’ve spent some time thinking and writing about John Self, the protagonist of Martin Amis’s 1984...
Ruth Franklin in The New Republic: At one panel I attended, titled “The Next Decade in Book Culture,” Nicholas...
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, an overview of Franco Moretti’s lab at Stanford, devoted to quantitative work...
Reflections on Cog Sci: How we read (articles and magazines) now: “In this post, I want to compare the two modes...
Brandon Sanderson’s novel Mistborn: the Final Empire begins with a brief italicized passage, spoken by the...
Following the lead of Old Man Stewart here, I’m going to take a moment shake my fist at Bill Simmons.I needed...
Recently a meme flitted around the internet for a few days — a meme about books: “What,” whispered the meme,...
Here’s a meditation on children’s books that can still make adults cry. The list is largely what you would expect:...