250 years of Candide
In honor of Voltaire’s immortal satire, the NYPL website presents a handsome Candide at 250 exhibition.
In honor of Voltaire’s immortal satire, the NYPL website presents a handsome Candide at 250 exhibition.
“If one has enough sense of guilt, it is not necessary to belong to a church,” said Patricia Highsmith (who sang in her church choir until age 37).
Boston Review celebrates its 35th anniversary by posting a 1975 Susan Sontag interview. (Via.)
At Bookninja, Granta editor John Freeman explains why his introduction to the Work issue is in video form.
“Where Austen offers us uncompromised satisfactions … George Eliot insists on dissatisfaction.” — Rohan Maitzen, in the redesigned Open Letters.