Peter Campbell at the British Museum
“Held in the hand, a typical cuneiform tablet is about the same weight and shape as an early mobile phone.”
“Held in the hand, a typical cuneiform tablet is about the same weight and shape as an early mobile phone.”
In honor of the 400th anniversary of Milton’s birth, Philip Pullman reads from Paradise Lost. Also, a quiz.
The earliest surviving letter from Oscar Wilde to his lover, Bosie, is among the Wilde papers newly donated to the Morgan library.
Mathias Enard’s novel, Zone, except for a few pages of flashbacks, consists of one 150,000-word sentence.
Many people I know have no interest in reading longer-form works on a screen when printed books have always served them well, and that’s completely fair enough. Obviously I’m not hostile to the book as a printed object. There are hundreds (thousands?) of them in my apartment. No doubt there will soon be hundreds more. Nor, however, am I averse . . .