The Frank Lloyd Wright show celebrating the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary is more hagiography than critical evaluation, but it does offer a strong sense of the best and worst of his architecture, from the space-age hilltop homes and awesome corkscrew museum itself, to his sprawling and weirdly laid out suburban landscapes. To be fair, they’d be far easier to traverse in . . .
Is Anthony Burgess famous for the wrong book? John Cotter sees your A Clockwork Orange and raises you Earthly Powers.
“Poe at his best is not imaginable without the excesses for which he must be forgiven.” — Marilynne Robinson, on reading Poe as a girl (Via.)
Google will sell digital ebooks, including at least some volumes scanned in its university library project, by year’s end.