Jon Swift on culling at libraries
“For a long time I have been saying that actually reading books is overrated. Now I have an unlikely ally: librarians.”
“For a long time I have been saying that actually reading books is overrated. Now I have an unlikely ally: librarians.”
In the current New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell proffers what he calls (at his blog) a “semi-defense of Enron.” Insofar as “defense” implies an argument or justification for something, the article is nothing of the kind. Rather, it is a perfect specimen of the sort of fuzzy-headed, attention-mongering contrarianism that frequently pops up at Slate, and that has, for the past . . .
BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time considers Jorge Luis Borges and his legacy. (Via.)
According to Franz Kafka, in autobiography, “one cannot avoid writing ‘often’ where truth would require that ‘once’ be written.”