This month’s Open Letters
In the new Open Letters: rehabilitating James Fenimore Cooper after Twain’s skewering, and reading Lem’s Solaris as translated from the French.
In the new Open Letters: rehabilitating James Fenimore Cooper after Twain’s skewering, and reading Lem’s Solaris as translated from the French.
A linguist studying the origins of language looks to animal communication for clues. (See also.)
Twain’s Is He Dead?, an 1898 play about “starving artists who stage the death of their mentor to increase the value of his work,” debuts on Broadway this winter.
Melville House’s Summer of Love sale gives you a copy of Meet The Beatles — and me an excuse to mention Derrida’s last interview, and his comments on love.
The NYPL has installed an Espresso book-on-demand machine and will print, for free, selected public domain titles for any patron.