Literature’s decline? Or rise?
Uncertain though the fate of tenured English profs may be, Barack Obama’s love of literature has arguably made him who, and led him where, he is. (Via.)
Uncertain though the fate of tenured English profs may be, Barack Obama’s love of literature has arguably made him who, and led him where, he is. (Via.)
The New York Public Library has an exhibit on Yaddo. Moscow Through Brown Eyes went, and recommends you do too.
Last month Peter Campbell, writing about the British Museum’s Babylon, Myth and Reality exhibition, observed, “Held in the hand, a typical cuneiform tablet is about the same weight and shape as an early mobile phone.” Hold it as though you were going to text someone and you hold it the way the scribe did; a proverb had it that “a . . .
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