This thing rather than that thing
“This short, perfect novel seems to encapsulate all the world’s pain in a soap bubble.” Deborah Eisenberg reviews Dezso Kosztolányi’s newly-translated Skylark for the NYRB.
“This short, perfect novel seems to encapsulate all the world’s pain in a soap bubble.” Deborah Eisenberg reviews Dezso Kosztolányi’s newly-translated Skylark for the NYRB.
Every librarian is caught between “two mythical places—the Perfect Library of God and the Infinite Library of Babel, the one transcribed by Jerome, the other by Borges.” (Via.)
“I’m all for [the Coen brothers’ True Grit remake] as long as the checks don’t bounce.” The crowd-and-photo-averse Charles Portis accepts Oxford American award.
In my latest column at The Awl, I consider whether the End-Times-obsessed Hutaree milita is likely to be an anomaly in the current climate. It’s hard to know how worked up to get about the Hutaree, the Antichrist-obsessed militia group arrested by the FBI over the weekend for allegedly plotting to kill a police officer, blow up members of law . . .