Jefferson’s Koran gets some use
Take that, Little Green Footballs. Keith Ellison will be sworn in using Thomas Jefferson’s Koran. (Enter LGF at your own risk.)
Take that, Little Green Footballs. Keith Ellison will be sworn in using Thomas Jefferson’s Koran. (Enter LGF at your own risk.)
Maximus Clarke, more commonly known in these parts as Mr. Maud, starts off the Pynchon Roundtable discussion. If you’re still making your way through the book, don’t worry: they’re discussing it in sections. So follow along at Metaxucafé, and maybe even heat things up by starting an argument in the comments. From Max’s dispatch: I had to work up some . . .
How many more feminist writers will we lose this decade? R.I.P. Tillie Olsen.
At Japundit, Marie Mockett praises Ellis Avery’s The Teahouse Fire, casting the author as the rare Westerner who writes authentically about Japan.
The Five Books of Moses. Unfortunately, I couldn’t even remember the word “philology,” much less pronounce it, in that context. Instead, I babbled about “seed,” progeny and semen until someone silenced me by refilling my glass. Alter’s rendition of the Pentateuch is impressive enough — James Wood calls it “a monument of scholarship” — that I thought I’d excerpt . . .