Prague’s new library
The new Nat’l Library of the Czech Republic will look like a huge alien blob, in the best way.
The new Nat’l Library of the Czech Republic will look like a huge alien blob, in the best way.
A passage in Absurdistan prompts Stephany to wonder: whither the novel with links?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks about the benefits of teaching African writing.
Levi Asher caught a preview of Twain’s Is He Dead? on Broadway. (Seconds till Terry & I see it next week: 523,800.)
When I asked Alex Ross if I could excerpt the epilogue (below) of his eloquent and persuasive The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century, he surprised me by saying it was the section he reworked the most. The conclusion follows so perfectly from the history and arguments that precede it, I imagined him sitting down and dashing the . . .