Ways of Seeing author’s gift of papers
John Berger donates his archives to the British Library; archivist travels to retrieve them from the writer’s French Alps stables. (Via.)
John Berger donates his archives to the British Library; archivist travels to retrieve them from the writer’s French Alps stables. (Via.)
At Edge, Lera Boroditsky considers how language shapes the way we think.
It’s going to be a Jean Rhystravaganza around here for a little while. Next week Granta online will publish some correspondence between novelist Alexander Chee and me about Rhys’ affair with Ford Madox Ford, and the novels they wrote afterward. And today at The Second Pass, I review Lilian Pizzichini’s new biography, The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys. . . .
Michael Bierut’s brief but fascinating currency design slideshow includes this ¥5000 note, which features 19th century Japanese novelist Ichiyo Higuchi on the front, and a field of irises on the reverse. (Via.)