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Empanelled! Also, questions and more questions.

  I guess my cardigan and the cat hair I couldn’t lint-roll off of it must’ve screamed “truly, I have renounced every aspect of being an attorney,” but, in light of my background, I was surprised to be selected for a civil jury today. Evidently the trial is an expedited, one-day affair. I’ll be at the courthouse tomorrow. Can’t say . . .

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Inside NYRB Classics

“Finding something lost gives us a sense of new possibility.” A talk with Edwin Frank of NYRB Classics, on restoring books to print.

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If I were Eve, I would have done the same damn thing

Blame R. Crumb for this rash of Bible posts. His new illustrated Genesis has reanimated the characters in my mind and led me back to all the “moral lessons” I puzzled over as a child. For instance: Yes, Eve disobeyed God, so that Christians revile her, but His rule was condescending, and His punishments were way too severe. Really, who . . .

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Focus: Cairo

A portfolio in the ninth issue of A Public Space focuses on the next generation of Egyptian writers. (Via.)

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